Giacomo Quarenghi incisore. Un’acquaforte raffigurante la Salara di Roma

Piervaleriano Angelini

doi:10.14633/AHR009

Giacomo Quarenghi engraver. An etching representing the Salara in Rome

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Piervaleriano Angelini Osservatorio Quarenghi, Bergamo

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https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR009

Abstract

In 2007, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam acquired an engraving of the Italian architect and draftsman Giacomo Quarenghi (1744-1817) for its collection.

This etching, mentioned by G.K. Nagler in his Neues Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexicon ... (twelfth volume, 1842, pp. 150-151), had gone missing and no copy of it had been found in modern times. It is presented with the title A view of Porta Salaria, in accordance with the subject that has been recognized in the drawing by Quarenghi in Album I-22 of the Public Library of Bergamo, and which can be considered the origin of the engraved image.

The analysis of the etching, now in Amsterdam, has stimulated a careful evaluation of the subject of the view (both designed and engraved), allowing us to recognize it not as Porta Salaria, but The Salara in Rome, the ancient salt repository which once existed near S. Maria in Cosmedin.

The study of the engraving of the Rijksmuseum, apart from the iconographic clarification, invites us to explore the little known topic concerning the direct, personal experience, albeit episodic, of Quarenghi with the medium of etching, and the meaning of this artistic practice for its author, and in the context of the culture of his time.

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2014-12-29

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Angelini, P. (2014). Giacomo Quarenghi engraver. An etching representing the Salara in Rome. ArcHistoR Architecture History Restoration - Architettura Storia Restauro, (2), 66–95. https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR009

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No. 2 (2014): ArcHistoR

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History of Architecture

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