PCT-59287

Antique Print of Justice and Fame by Pazzi (1762)

  • Condition: Good, given age. Some staining, a few spots and tiny holes in the margins. Diagonal crease lower right. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
  • Date: 1762
  • Overall size: 35.3 x 48.6 cm.
  • Image size: 25.8 x 24.2 cm.
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.. Antique Print of Justice and Fame by Pazzi (1762)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Justitia - Fama' - Scarce plate showing Justice and Fame by P. Antoni Puzzi after one of the frescoes Domenico Zapieri painted for the Abbey of Grottaferrata (near Rome). This Abbey was founded by St. Nilus of Rossano and St.Bartolomeus in 1004. The frescoes were commissioned from Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese; the titular Abbot of this Abbey. The source of this print is: Picturae Dominici Zampierii, vulgo Domenichino, quae extant in sacello sacrae aedi Cryptoferratensi adjuncto tabulis aeneis incisae.(1762). The plates for this work were engraved by F. Bartolozzi, P.A. Pazzi, A. Cappelan and C. Gregori.

From: 'Picturae Dominici Zampierii, vulgo Domenichino, quae extant in sacello sacrae aedi Cryptoferratensi adjuncto tabulis aeneis incisae' published 1762.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'P. A. Pazzi' after 'Domenico Zampieri'. Pietro Antonio Pazzi (1706 - 1766), Engraver. Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino for his shortness (October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese or Carracci School of painters.