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Giuseppe Vasi, artist
Italian, 1710 - 1782
Monte Aventino, e Vestigi del Ponte Sublicio (The Aventine Hill, and remains of the Ponte Sublicio) pl. 96 from the series Magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (Splendors of ancient and modern Rome), 1747 - 1761
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21.3 x 33.9 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1988.1.251

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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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