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Giuseppe Vasi, artist
Italian, 1710 - 1782
View of the Campidoglio, pl. 80 from the series Magnificenze di Roma, circa 1747 - 1761
etching
20.9 x 32.3 cm (plate); 28.5 x 43 cm (sheet)
Loan from the Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection L85.

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Artist Biography: Painter, architect, archeologist and etcher, born in Corleone, Sicily, 28 August 1710, died in Rome 16 April 1782. Studied painting in Sicily, then practiced in Rome as student of S. Conca., P. Ghezzi and Juvara. He was printer to the court of Naples, and for this was made a knight. Piranesi was his student.~~Reference: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981.~

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