Giuochi atletici / Giuseppe Palazzi delineò ; Giuseppe Vasi incise.
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Print showing a large semi-circular building with viewing boxes overlooking a stage where men are wrestling; there is a tall archway, topped with a clock, that connects the two sides to form a half-circle. There are tents, vendors, pedestrians, and a band of soldiers drilling, in the foreground.
At head of title: Disegno della Seconda Machina rappresentante i.
Caption continues: Incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Signor Don Lorenzo Colonna Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli &. &. come Ambasciatore straordinario de Sua Maestà il Rè della due Sicilie &. &. &. la sera delli XXIX. Giugno Festa dei Gloriosi Santi Apostoli Pietro, e Paolo, in occasione d'aver presentata la Chinea alla Santità de Nostro Signore Papa Clemente XIII. l'Anno MDCCLXVI.
Cavalier Paolo Posi Architetto.
Forms part of: Charles A. Browne collection.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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