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Pietro Paltronieri, called il Mirandolese* (1673-1741) and Vittorio Maria Bigari* (1692-1776)

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Pietro Paltronieri, called il Mirandolese* (1673-1741) and Vittorio Maria Bigari* (1692-1776)

Architectural Capricci with Figures walking near an Obelisk set among Roman ruins; and Peasants bathing in the ruins of a Roman Bath

tempera on unlined shaped canvas
61¼ x 68½in. (155.5 x 174cm.)
Two (2)

Lot Essay

The present works which were probably painted circa 1724 may be compared to a series of architectural fantasies by Mirandolese in the Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna, in which the staffage was also executed by Bigari.
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