Antique engraving by Giuseppe Vasi "Chiesa di S. Maria in Via Lata", mid-1700'

Description: Original engraving Chiesa di S. Maria in Via Lata is by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Giuseppe Vasi (1710 -1782) born inCorleone,Sicilyand later, around 1736, moved to Rome. After a period of intense visits and studies, Vasi started to work as an engraver in theCalcografia Camerale, the main public institution of Rome devoted to engraving and etching, founded some years before byPope Clement XII. His views for the Calcografia include panoramas of theTrevi Fountainand of theSpanish Steps. Later on Vasi started to work on his own, producing and selling series of his views to a public made principally of grand tourists. The first series of akin consists in theVedute di Roma sul Tevere, i.e.Views of the Tiber, circa 1743 and later adapted to become part of theMagnificenze di Roma antica e moderna. In these years Vasi also hosted in his workshop for a limited period of time the youngGiovanni Battista Piranesi, his major pupil, who shaped here his technique as an engraver. From 1747 to 1761 Vasi published a series of ten volumes including circa 240 engravings ofveduteof Rome. He also created 15 tablet engravings of opera scenes designed byVincenzo Re; some of which are part of the collection at theVictoria and Albert Museumin London. Vasi played a major role as a cartographer and as writer as well. As a cartographer his major work remains the giant map of Rome, published in the early 1760s but conceived at least 20 years before; as an author, Vasi wrote nine out of ten books of the "Magnificenze" (II to X) and the "Itinerario Istruttivo". The "Itinerario", first published in the 1760s as well, turned out to be one of the most successful enterprises akin: translated in French and later in English, it was re-edited, modified and republished up to the mid-18th century. Framed measures 22 18.25 inches, image size 13 by 8.5 inches. Domestic shipping & handling from $12 International shipping $65

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