The activity carried out by Luigi Garzi as an inventor for prints made in collaboration with Italian and French engravers is a topic that, with the exception of very rare references, has not yet been examined by critics. To partially fill this gap, ten different prints, kept at the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome, are presented here – six of them reproduced here for the first time. They bear witness to the constant collaboration that the painter undertakes, from the beginning to the late maturity, with well-known engravers such as Albert Clowet, Pietro Santi Bartoli and Arnold van Westerhout. Five of these prints, engraved with Garzi's invention, are published together with four different volumes of the time, three of which have so far been ignored by critics. One of these also contains a letter dedicated to Luigi Garzi "famous painter", here transcribed in the appendix, which testifies to the high esteem of contemporaries for the artist and provides an ante quem date for his cited works. Furthermore, this graphic corpus shows that the fame of Garzi and his paintings is also attested by the circulation of d’aprés engravings, such as those carved by Francesco Faraone Aquila, by van Westerhout himself, by the Count of Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur.
L’attività svolta da Luigi Garzi in qualità di inventor per stampe realizzate in collaborazione con incisori italiani e d’oltralpe è un argomento che, a esclusione di rarissimi rimandi, non è ancora stato preso in esame dalla critica. Per colmare in parte tale lacuna si presentano in questa sede dieci diverse stampe conservate presso l’Istituto Centrale per la Grafica di Roma, di cui sei riprodotte qui per la prima volta, le quali documentano la collaborazione costante che il pittore intraprende, dagli esordi alla tarda maturità, con noti incisori come Albert Clowet, Pietro Santi Bartoli e Arnold van Westerhout. Cinque di queste stampe, incise con l’invenit di Garzi, sono pubblicate a corredo di quattro differenti volumi dell’epoca, di cui tre fino ad oggi ignorati dalla critica. Uno di questi contiene anche una lettera dedicata proprio a Luigi Garzi «celebre pittore», qui trascritta in appendice, che testimonia l’alta considerazione dei contemporanei per l’artista e fornisce una data ante quem per le sue opere citate. Da questo corpus grafico emerge, inoltre, come la fama di Garzi e dei suoi dipinti sia attestata anche dalla circolazione di incisioni d’aprés, come quelle intagliate da Francesco Faraone Aquila, dallo stesso van Westerhout, dal conte di Caylus e Nicolas Le Sueur.
«Luigi Garzi inventor»: stampe d’invenzione e di traduzione dall’Istituto Centrale per la Grafica / Principi, Patrizia. - In: STORIA DELL'ARTE. - ISSN 0392-4513. - 155-156:1-2(2021), pp. 218-237.
«Luigi Garzi inventor»: stampe d’invenzione e di traduzione dall’Istituto Centrale per la Grafica
Patrizia PrincipiPrimo
2021
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The activity carried out by Luigi Garzi as an inventor for prints made in collaboration with Italian and French engravers is a topic that, with the exception of very rare references, has not yet been examined by critics. To partially fill this gap, ten different prints, kept at the Central Institute for Graphics in Rome, are presented here – six of them reproduced here for the first time. They bear witness to the constant collaboration that the painter undertakes, from the beginning to the late maturity, with well-known engravers such as Albert Clowet, Pietro Santi Bartoli and Arnold van Westerhout. Five of these prints, engraved with Garzi's invention, are published together with four different volumes of the time, three of which have so far been ignored by critics. One of these also contains a letter dedicated to Luigi Garzi "famous painter", here transcribed in the appendix, which testifies to the high esteem of contemporaries for the artist and provides an ante quem date for his cited works. Furthermore, this graphic corpus shows that the fame of Garzi and his paintings is also attested by the circulation of d’aprés engravings, such as those carved by Francesco Faraone Aquila, by van Westerhout himself, by the Count of Caylus and Nicolas Le Sueur.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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