Manuel OlivĂ© – The Farnese Hercules

Manuel OlivĂ© (Oliver), model Active in Rome and Barcellona, documented from 1786 to 1802 Francesco Righetti, bronze cast Rome 1749-1819 The Farnese Hercules • 1786 Bronze, h 76.5 cm Signed and dated lower back: “MOlive / 1786” The Farnese Hercules has held an extraordinary fascination for generations of artist, travellers and collectors, and for eighteenth…

Vincenzo Camuccini – The Death of Porzia

Vincenzo Camuccini Rome 1771 – 1844 The Death of Porzia • 1824 ca. Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 64.5 cm The episode portrayed in this sketch by Vincenzo Camuccini is taken from the history of Rome in the Republican era, an inexhaustible reservoir of exemplary acts of civil and moral virtue, to which painters in…

Adolfo De Carolis – Study for male nude

Adolfo De Carolis Montefiore dell’Aso 1874 – Rome 1928 Study for male nude on the left tympanum of Aemilius for Palazzo del PodestĂ  in Bologna • 1911-12 Oil on canvas , 60,5 x 77 cm Selected bibliography for Palazzo del PodestĂ : Pel salone del PodestĂ , Lettera al direttore, in “Il resto del Carlino”, 15 novembre…

Johan Christian Dahl – View of Vesuvius erupting

Johan Christian Dahl Bergen 1788 – Dresden 1857 View of Vesuvius erupting (“The Small and the Big Crater on Vesuvius”) • 1821 Oil on paper applied on canvas, cm 28.5 Ă— 42 Provenance: identifiable with “The Small and the Big Crater on Vesuvius” donated by Dahl to Professor Teodoro Monticelli in Naples in January 1821…

Umberto Cuzzi – Project for the Aurora Pen Kiosk

Umberto Cuzzi Parenzo, Istria 1891 – Turin 1973 Progetto per il Chiosco della Penna Aurora: pianta, prospetto frontale e laterale • 1928 Matita, matite colorate su carta avana, 226 Ă— 284 mm Bibliografia: Ezio Godoli, CittĂ , architettura e ambientazioni, in Futurismo 1909-1944 arte, architettura, spettacolo, letteratura, pubblicitĂ , catalogo della mostra, Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, a…