Piazza Santa Croce (Vue d'Ensemble de la Fête; Festivities on the Piazza Santa Croce)

Jacques Callot, French, 1592 - 1635
after Giulio Parigi, Italian, 1571 - 1635

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1616

Etching on paper

Plate: 9 × 11 13/16 in. (22.9 × 30 cm)

Sheet: 9 3/8 × 12 3/16 in. (23.8 × 31 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

PR.978.162

Portfolio / Series Title

La Guerra di Belezza (La Guerre de la beauté; The War of Beauty)

Publisher

Zanobi Pignoni, Florence

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: TEATRO FATTO IN FIRENZE NELLA FESTA A CAVALLO PER LA VENVTA DEL SER.mo [mo in superscript] PRINCIPE D'URBINO / Qui fecero 42 Caualieri diuers abbattimenti e dipoi un balletto ci si uido ancora una battaglia a piedi di 300 persone, oltre i Carri e l'altra gente per diuersi seruitij; inscribed, in plate, lower right: Iullus Parigij Inv. ICallot [IC in monogram] delineauit et F; Watermark, center left: [indistinct]

Course History

ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015

ITAL 23, 17th and 18th Century Italian Literature, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

Festivals, Theater, and Opera at the Courts of the Medici in Florence, William H. Schab Gallery, New York, New York, October 6-December 8, 1978, no. 25.

The Theatre of Jacques Callot, Paul Creative Art Center, University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, October 28-December 11, 1986

Theater Art of the Medici, Beaumont-May Gallery and Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-December 7, 1980, no. 51.

Theater Art of the Medici, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 15, 1980-January 31, 1981

Publication History

William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., Theater and Festival Etchings and Master Prints and Drawings from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Catalogue 59, New York: William H. Schab Gallery, 1978, no. 25, ill. p. 11.

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Theatre Art of the Medici, Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 1980, p. 109, no. 51, ill. p. 108.

Provenance

William H. Schab Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1978.

Catalogue Raisonne

Lieure 182; Meaume 640

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