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Web Auction 99 - WORKS ON PAPER: OLD MASTER, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTS, 19TH AND 20TH DRAWINGS, ANTIQUE MAPS.
Apr 29, 2021
Italy
Piazza Lovatelli, 1, 00186 Roma RM
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April 29, 2021 from 12:00 CET
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Bertolami Fine Arts srl
Piazza Lovatelli, 1
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LOT 78:
The engraving derives from a subject of Ovid's Metamorphoses which refers to the fresco by Giulio Romano in Palazzo ...
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The engraving derives from a subject of Ovid's Metamorphoses which refers to the fresco by Giulio Romano in Palazzo Te in Mantua. Jupiter fulminates the Giants who challenged him. In the lower part, in a rectangular space, the dedication to the friend Orazio Quaranta and the inscription "Tolluntur in altum / Ut lapsu serioore ruant / Salvator Rosa Inv. Pinx. Scul." The text of inscription derives from Claudian (In Rufinum, I, 22-23) and refers to the inconstancy of Fortune.
Etching finished with drypoint, 725x475mm
copy in perfect state of conservation, II state of 2
