Marci Riccii Bellunensis Pictoris celeberrimi opera ac studio olim inventas, et lineis partim, partim pictura efformatas, a Juliano vero Giampiccolo, sororis filio, adnitente Joanne Bapta Theupolo

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Marci Riccii Bellunensis Pictoris celeberrimi opera ac studio olim inventas, et lineis partim, partim pictura efformatas, a Juliano vero Giampiccolo, sororis filio, adnitente Joanne Bapta Theupolo

c. 1735

Giuliano Giampiccoli (Italian, 1703–1759) With additions to the title pages by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696–1770) After paintings by Marco Ricci (Italian (active Venice, Veneto, Rome, and England) 1676–1730) Dedicated to Joseph Smith (British (active Venice), c. 1682–1770) , and to Antonio Maria Zanetti the Elder (Italian, 1680–1757)

The printmaker Giuliano Giampiccoli collaborated with the publisher Bartolomeo Zucconi to produce an album of etchings after paintings by Marco Ricci, the artist's uncle. Divided into two groups of eighteen prints, the album includes two title pages, one with a dedication to Consul Joseph Smith, the other to Count Anton Maria Zanetti. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo lent a hand on the project, creating two small vignettes of scenes from Greek history for the title pages and possibly executing drawings after Ricci's paintings for Giampiccoli to use as models for the etchings.

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Object Details

Titles:

Marci Riccii Bellunensis Pictoris celeberrimi opera ac studio olim inventas, et lineis partim, partim pictura efformatas, a Juliano vero Giampiccolo, sororis filio, adnitente Joanne Bapta Theupolo
The most celebrated works of Marco Ricci Painter from Belluno, formerly invented with zeal, some drawn and some painted, by Juliano called Giampiccolo, his nephew, assisted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice: Bartolomeo Zucconi, c. 1735)

Date:

c. 1735

Artists:

Medium:

Book of etchings

Dimensions:

Book: 14 3/4 x 20 1/4 x 5/8 inches (37.5 x 51.4 x 1.6 cm) Other (archival box): 14 7/8 x 20 3/8 x 1 inches (37.8 x 51.8 x 2.5 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-43366

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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