1700s Giovanni Campiglia Engraving "Perseus saves Andromeda" Framed Signed COA

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Campiglia has been sold numerous times in auction with works from Museum Florentium being the most often seen in the market.Extra Information:According to Greek legend, Queen Cassiopeia angered the sea god Poseidon by claiming that she (or in some versions her daughter Andromeda) was more beautiful than the Nereids. As punishment Poseidon sent a sea monster to attack her land. The only way that the monster could be averted was by the chaining of Andromeda to a rock in the sea as a sacrifice. The hero Perseus saw the abandoned Andromeda and came to her rescue. Here he holds out his hand to guide her to safety over the body of the slain monster. Perseus and Andromeda: A Roman marble relief panel depicting Perseus and Andromeda. 2nd century CE. (Capitoline Museums, Rome) During the first period of the Roman empire, called the age of the Caesars, Rome became the new capital of the world. Examples of works from the early days of the reign of Augustus and made by artists with strong Greek influence include a group of beautiful reliefs believed to be part of a series of small sculpted paintings that possibly were used to decorate rooms. The most exquisite of these reproduced a Greek theme: the liberation of Andromeda by Perseus. In this relief, Andromeda walks down wet rock steps as the dragon, slain by Perseus, lies at her feet, Perseus extends his arm offering his hand to Andromeda who tries to reach it. Another of these reliefs shows Endymion asleep, the young man rests while his dog howls in a background marked by the relief’s horizontal shadows giving the impression of the darkness of the night. Two important features can be seen in these reliefs, the moisture on the rock steps from the Perseus’ relief and the dark ambiance of the Endymion’s both effects of pictorial realism so characteristic of Roman art. The roman general Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus. By then a series of civil wars broke out and ended in the demise of the Republic. Caesar’s adopted heir Octavian, later known as Augustus, rose to sole power and the era of the Roman Empire began. Julius Caesar began the transformation of the Roman Republic later continued by Augustus the first emperor of Rome. Augustus, an adept follower of Hellenistic art, and with him all of Rome accepted the ideas of the Greek world of their time. Even after the reign of Augustus his descendants, Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, transformed Rome into a marble city with clear Hellenistic influences. The Capitoline Museums are a single museum containing a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facing on the central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years. The history of the museums can be traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on the Capitoline Hill. Since then, the museums' collection has grown to include a large number of ancient Roman statues, inscriptions, and other artifacts; a collection of medieval and Renaissance art; and collections of jewels, coins, and other items. The museums are owned and operated by the municipality of Rome. Open to the public in 1734 under Clement XII, the Capitoline Museums are considered the first museum in the world, understood as a place where art could be enjoyed by all and not only by the owners. Artist Biography:Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici. He initially trained under Tommaso Redi and Lorenzo del Moro, then in Bologna under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. During his career, Campiglia was employed at Rome and Florence, painting and engraving historical subjects and portraits. Campiglia worked with Antonio Francesco Gori for over a decade on the Museum Florentium, a collection of images of all the famous artists of Florence. Campiglia's contributions were published in 1734, which induced Pope Clement XII to bring him to Rome. There he worked with historian Giovanni Gaetano Bottari in engravings for his multi-volume Musei Capitolini. His highly finished drawings of antique and famous statues of Rome were highly prized by British tourists. 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