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Compendio delle vite de' pittori veneziani istorici più rinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incisi

1762
Not on view
This book has a title page and contains 24 etched portraits and text relating to the sitter with ornament borders. The book is bound in marble paper-covered boards with a vellum back corners.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Compendio delle vite de' pittori veneziani istorici più rinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incisi
  • Artist: Alessandro Longhi (Italian, Venice 1733–1813 Venice)
  • Sitter: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
  • Sitter: Niccolo (Nicolaus) Bambini (Italian, Venice 1651–1736 Venice)
  • Sitter: Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, Belluno 1659–1734 Venice)
  • Sitter: Gregorio Lazzarini (Italian, Venice 1655–1730 Villa Bona near Polesine)
  • Sitter: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682–1754 Venice)
  • Sitter: Giambettino Cignaroli (Italian, 1706–1770)
  • Sitter: Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)
  • Sitter: Giovanni Battista Pittoni (Italian, Venice 1687–1767 Venice)
  • Sitter: Gaspare Diziani (Italian, Belluno 1689–1767 Venice)
  • Sitter: Giussepe Nogari (Italian, 1699–1766)
  • Sitter: Giuseppe Camerata (Italian, ca. 1668–1761 or 1762)
  • Sitter: Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) (Italian, Venice 1701–1785 Venice)
  • Sitter: Giuseppe Angeli (Angioli) (Italian, 1712–1798)
  • Sitter: Jacopo Guarana (Italian, Venice 1720–1808 Venice)
  • Sitter: Francesco Fontebasso (Italian, Venice 1707–1769 Venice)
  • Sitter: Domenico Maggiotto (Italian, Venice 1712–1794 Venice)
  • Sitter: Antonio Marinetti (Italian, Chioggia 1710–1796 Venice)
  • Sitter: Fabio Canal (Italian, 1703–1767)
  • Sitter: Francesco Zugno (Italian, Venice 1709–1787 Venice)
  • Sitter: Francesco Polazzo (Italian)
  • Sitter: Antonio Zucchi (Italian, Venice 1726–1796 Rome)
  • Sitter: Michele Marieschi (Italian, Venice 1710–1743 Venice)
  • Sitter: Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, Venice 1729–1804 Venice)
  • Sitter: Alessandro Longhi (Italian, Venice 1733–1813 Venice)
  • Publisher: Alessandro Longhi (Italian, Venice 1733–1813 Venice)
  • Date: 1762
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: 20 3/8 x 14 15/16 in. (51.8 x 37.9 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950
  • Object Number: 50.598.3
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Self-Portrait
Alessandro Longhi
1733–1813
Painting and Merit, Alessandro Longhi Italian, Etching
Painting and Merit
Alessandro Longhi
ca. 1761
The Rhinoceros, Clara, in the foreground, her keeper holding her horn and a whip behind her at center with various other spectators in Carnival masks, Alessandro Longhi Italian, Etching
The Rhinoceros, Clara, in the foreground, her keeper holding her horn and a whip behind her at center with various other spectators in Carnival masks
Multiple artists/makers
after ca. 1751
Descriptive text in an ornamental border, from "Compendio delle vite de' pittori veneziani istorici più rinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incisi"
Alessandro Longhi
1762
Page with dedicatory text in an ornamental border with trophies of arms, from "Compendio delle vite de' pittori veneziani istorici più rinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incisi"
Alessandro Longhi
1762

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