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Charlottesville, VA 22911
United States
Bremo Auctions is a full service auction house located in the historic town of Charlottesville VA. While our primary focus is on fresh-to-the-market property from distinguished Virginia Estates, institutions and private collections our individualized approach is tailored to meet the needs of each cl...Read more
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Apr 23, 2016 - Apr 24, 2016
After Giuseppe Zocchi hand-colored engraving "A View of the Hospital Piazza of St. Mari al Florence"; marked to bottom middle above title "Published according to Act of Parliament August, 1760", and marked to top left corner "54"; plate marks to edging; image has been reversed from original; measures approximately 18-1/4" x 24-1/4" with frame and has a sight image of approximately 10-1/4" x 17"; in Good overall condition with some age appropriate wear and toning. Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767) was an Italian painter and printmaker, active in Florence, and best known for his "vedute" of the city. Born into a poor family, Zocchi began his training in his native Florence. The Marchese Andrea Gerini became his patron when he was very young, sending him to further his studies in Venice, Milan, Bologna, and Rome. Gerini commissioned Zocchi to record all the famous Florentine landmarks, which he did in a series of drawings, now in New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. Zocchi and a number of other engravers copied Zocchi's drawings into engravings, which were issued in two series in 1744. One series consists of 25 "vedute" under the
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