Engraving Il banchetto degli Dei by Angelo Campanella, 18th century

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Rare etching by the famous Roman artist Angelo Campanella (1746-1811). Subject: The banquet of the gods. Sold with frame, to report some defects in the paper (however, we recommend that you look closely in detail all the attached photos). Biographical notes: born in Rome between 1746 and 1748, was one of the most active engravers in Rome in the second half of the eighteenth century. He also worked as a restorer and painter and had his own art school. One of his paintings entitled The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary with Saints Secondiano and Margherita was executed for the Cathedral of Tarquinia in 1796; it was later restored and on that occasion the coat of arms of Cardinal J. Siffrein Maury, Bishop of Montefiascone-Corneto since 1792, was highlighted. Probably in the same years the Campanella painted the Madonna in throne with the Child and the saints Francesco di Paola and Rocco, already in the church of the Annunziata of the same City and now in the Diocesan Museum. To its store it goes ascribed then the Annunciation, now to the diocesan Museum of Tarquinia. In recent years the five altarpieces of the church of San Felice in Tessennano, dated between 1797 and 1800, have been attributed to Campanella. They represent the Purgatory, the Martyrdom of the saints Felice and Adautto, the Madonna of the Rosary with the saints Domenico and Caterina, the Adoration of the Magi, the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the work of Campanella we notice the convergence of different stylistic suggestions, probably deriving from his primary training as an engraver. The graphic one is surely the activity that engaged Campanella the longest, which he learned at the school of Giovanni Volpato. Among his most significant achievements is the participation in the collection of prints entitled Schola italica picturae and the prints that are now collected at the National Institute for Graphics, which are characterized above all by translation prints, that is, prints that were made with the aim of reproducing on a reduced scale works by great masters of the past but also by painters contemporary to the artist. Works of invention are instead those engravings that are conceived as independent creations, where the engraver enjoys greater creative freedom.

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