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17 mars 2010

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, "Veduta dell Interio dell Ansiteatro Flavio" and "Altra Veduta del Tempo della Sibilla in Tivoli"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), "Veduta dell Interio dell Ansiteatro Flavio" and "Altra Veduta del Tempo della Sibilla in Tivoli" photo Bonhams copper engravings, the latter trimmed and laid down. 44 x 67cm. (2) - Sold for £624 Bonhams....

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Tags: 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, copper engraving

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17 mars 2010

Giovanni Battista Brustolon (Italian, 1712-1796) Die Jovis postrema Bacchanaliorum Serenisimus Princeps e ducali Palatio<...

Giovanni Battista Brustolon (Italian, 1712-1796) Die Jovis postrema Bacchanaliorum Serenisimus Princeps e ducali Palatio; Habita a Serenisimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci, after Canaletto. photo courtesy Bonhams engravings, 48 x 60cm - in maple frames. (2)...

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Tags: 18th century, Canaletto, Giovanni Battista Brustolon, engraving

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13 mars 2010

Old Master drawings exhibited by Katrin Bellinger @ TEFAF

Maarten Van Heemskerck (1498-1574)? The Story of Susannah: as Susannah is led away to be put to death, the boy Daniel denounces his Elders. Traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, indented with the stylus; 193 x 248 mm A superb group of Old Master drawings...

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Tags: Adolph von Menzel, Cornelis Saftleven, Jan Josefsz. Van Goyen, Johann Elias Riedinger, Katrin Bellinger, Maarten Van Heemskerck

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8 mars 2010

"Tulips in Amsterdam" @ The Rijksmuseum

Herman Henstenburgh, Bloemen in vaas met Atalanta AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is exhibiting its most beautiful prints and drawings of tulips from the 17th and 18th centuries. Individual tulips, tulips in bouquets, in the garden, as the design for a silver...

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Tags: Jacob Marrel, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Herman Henstenburgh

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20 février 2010

"The Printmaker’s Art" @ National Gallery of Scotland

Albrecht Durer, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" from "The Apocalypse Revelation of Saint John the Divine". Woodcut on paper: 39.20 x 28.20 cm (to edge of block). National Gallery of Scotland. EDINBURGH.- A collection of iconic prints, by some of...

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Tags: Rembrandt, Albrecht Durer, National Gallery of Scotland, Francisco de Goya, Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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18 février 2010

"Looking at Michelangelo" @ The Courtauld Gallery

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Christ on the Cross, c. 1555-60. Black chalk on paper, 27.5 cm x 23.4 cm. The Courtauld Gallery, London A special display of rare Italian sixteenth century drawings and prints from The Courtauld Gallery’s outstanding permanent...

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Tags: Michelangelo, Courtauld Gallery, Jacopo Pontormo

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16 février 2010

"Michelangelo's Dream" @ The Courtauld Gallery

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Dream of Human Life, c. 1533 ©The Courtauld Gallery ‘Drawings the like of which have never been seen…’ Giorgio Vasari, 1568 Michelangelo’s masterpiece The Dream (Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of...

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Tags: Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Giorgio Vasari, The Courtauld Gallery

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1 février 2010

Sant' Angelo In Vado, Marches 1540/42 - 1609 Ancona

Federico Zuccaro (Sant' Angelo In Vado, Marches 1540/42 - 1609 Ancona) Submission of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Pope Alexander III. photo Sotheby's Pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash over traces of black chalk and slight traces of red chalk....

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Tags: Federico Zuccaro, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Pope Alexander III

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30 janvier 2010

Three drawings of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino @ Sotheby's NY, Old Master Drawings sale

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino (Cento 1591 - 1666 Bologna), Saint Peter. photo Sotheby's Red chalk within red chalk framing lines, on paper laid down on canvas; bears ink numbering on the backing: III. 10 5/8 by 8 in; 270 by 204 mm. Est....

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Tags: 17th century, Il Guercino, Pen and brown ink, Queen Esther, Red chalk, Saint Peter

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29 janvier 2010

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, Study of a Merchant Vessel & An Architectural Capriccio with a Pavilion

Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (Venice 1697 - 1768), Study of a Merchant Vessel. photo Sotheby's Pen and brown ink and gray and brown wash over black chalk; bears inscription in brown ink: Canaleto. 9 5/8 by 7 1/2 in; 244 by 191 mm. Estimate...

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Tags: 18th century, Canaletto, Sotheby's, Drawing

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