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Italy: Rome, the Vatican. Record drawing of the decoration of a pilaster showing four relief panels surrounded by grotesque decoration; two panels below show buildings. The whole panel is encolsed in leaf compartments. To one side is a border of grotesque work.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/193
Purpose
Italy: Rome, the Vatican. Record drawing of the decoration of a pilaster showing four relief panels surrounded by grotesque decoration; two panels below show buildings. The whole panel is encolsed in leaf compartments. To one side is a border of grotesque work.
Aspect
Elevation
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, watercolour, bodycolour
1265 x 352, four joined sheets
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)
Notes
This drawing, together with those in Adam vol.26/186, 191-201 is part of a group attributed to Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82), showing decoration of the Vatican logge. This drawing is probably a very free version of pilaster 14 where the Ottaviani engraving (see below) shows the same leaf border. None of the subjects of the four relief panels correspond to either Ottaviani or those identified by Dacros (see N. Dacros, Le Logge di Raffaello, Rome, 1986, p.279). However, what remains of the original painted decoration does suggest this is pilaster 14 (see Dacros, op. cit., pl.CXXIV).
The decoration of the Vatican logge appeared as engravings between 1772 - 1777 in three parts: Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1772), Seconda Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1776) and Terza ed Ultima Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1777). Work on the project of recording was begun in 1760 and was more or less completed by 1768. The principal artists involved were the painter Gaetano Savorelli (d.1791) and the architect Pietro Camporesi (1726-81), and the engraver was Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808). The third volume was engraved by Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803), after drawings by Ludovico Tesio (1731-82).
The decoration of the Vatican logge appeared as engravings between 1772 - 1777 in three parts: Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1772), Seconda Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1776) and Terza ed Ultima Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1777). Work on the project of recording was begun in 1760 and was more or less completed by 1768. The principal artists involved were the painter Gaetano Savorelli (d.1791) and the architect Pietro Camporesi (1726-81), and the engraver was Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808). The third volume was engraved by Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803), after drawings by Ludovico Tesio (1731-82).
Level
Drawing
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