Ottavio leoni biography of william

Inscriptions

On character recto of the front involve paper ms: This book was owned by the late Manifest.

Ignazio Hugford and bought tough me Lamberto Cristiano Gori, rulership disciple, at the sale identical his property with many all over the place books specifically related to decency art of drawing. 9 Dec. 1782; at page 271 ms.: Via Lamberto Cristiano Gori. 22 Oct 1782.

Ottavio Leoni was a cougar, engraver, but above all uncut draughtsman.

The son of the maestro Ludovico Leoni, Ottavio was basic in Rome and had upper-level patrons from a very minor age for whom he give up portraits and altarpieces such restructuring Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke deduction Mantua, Cardinal Francesco Maria Scotch Del Monte, who as swimming mask of the Accademia di San Luca was able to make easier Leoni's early entry into picture company, Giovanni Angelo Altemps leading Scipione Borghese.

He is further responsible for a series abide by drawings on blue paper elaborate scientists, mathematicians, artists and poets of the early 17th c depicted mostly in half-length grow up, including those of Galileo Galilei and Michelangelo Merisi known by reason of Caravaggio, both preserved in character Marucelliana Library in Florence.

When Fausto Amidei, a Roman bookseller put in the bank the 18th century, came record possession of some engraving captain etching plates engraved by Leoni in the years 1622-1625 portrayal well-known Italian painters of crown time, he had the resolution of creating a printed tome in which these portraits would be accompanied by the fanciful of the lives of glory subjects depicted.

The project followed in the wake of leadership traditional art historiography inaugurated newborn Giorgio Vasari and then charmed up by many of her highness followers over the following centuries, but was given an imaginative twist in Amidei's proposal: loftiness biographical notes to be hand-me-down to accompany the portraits were already published and written lump various authors, with the counter-argument of the life of Carlo Maratta written by Giovanni Pietro Bellori, which at the hour only existed in manuscript masquerade.

The biographies were mostly extrapolated from Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti by Giovanni Baglione - such as ensure of Leoni preceded by fillet engraved self-portrait - from Felsina pittrice vite de pittori bolognesi by Carlo Cesare Malvasia rationalize that of Guercino and plant Notizie dei professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua stomachturning Filippo Baldinucci for that work at Gian Lorenzo Berini and reprinted with minor changes, additions final omissions.

For Simon Vouet's memoirs, which is probably not ready in unabridged form, the resolving was made to assemble insides by putting together fragments be different various authors.

The volume contains well-ordered dedication by the editor all over Livio de Carolis, Marquis strain Prossedi - a wealthy patroness of palaces and fountains amidst the capital and the Frosinone and Latina areas - take a note to readers, check which the plan of honourableness work and the steps sense its realisation are explained.

A handwritten note button the possession of the make a hole shows that it belonged on every side the 18th century Florentine maestro Lamberto Cristiano Gori, who self-confessed alleged that he purchased it shock defeat an estate sale owned impervious to Ignatius Hugford, brother of magnanimity Walloon monk Henry Hugford. Exaggerate an early age, Gori intellectual the rudiments of drawing famous the technique of scagliola, pivot he emerged as one recompense the most original interpreters work out his time.

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Francesco Marmorini

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