TWO FACSIMILE COLOURPRINTS OF WALL DECORATION IN THE VATICAN

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SAVORELLI AND CAMPORESI
TWO FACSIMILE COLOURPRINTS OF WALL DECORATION IN THE VATICAN
Depicting lavish architectural wall decoration of the Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano
105 cm. x 50 cm. (overall), framed and glazed
Together with Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a serie of ten modern facsimile prints, depicting various views of Rome - 48 cm. x 60 cm. and smaller, framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame; and two modern facsimile prints of Trajan's column - 101 cm. x 22 cm., framed and glazed, unexamined out of frame (14)

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Raphael's early 16th Century decoration of the Vatican Loggia were drawn by Pietro Camporesi (d. 1781) and Gaetano Savorelli (d. 1791) and engraved by Giovanni Ottaviani (d. 1808) for Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, Rome, 1772-1776 (P. Ward-Jackson, Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin, April 1967, p. 61).

unexamined out of frame

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