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Guido Reni

Descrittione degli Apparati Fatti in Bologna per la venuta di N.S. Papa Clemente VIII (Description of the apparati made in Bologna for the entrance...

Maker

Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642), designer
Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642), printmaker
Vittoria Benacci (Italian, d. 1629), author

Title

Descrittione degli Apparati Fatti in Bologna per la venuta di N.S. Papa Clemente VIII (Description of the apparati made in Bologna for the entrance...
Description of the apparati made in Bologna for the entrance of Our Lord Pope Clement VIII

Year

1599

Medium

  • Bound book with etchings,
  • vellum binding (discarded manuscript leaf)

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Bound book with etchings,
  • vellum binding (discarded manuscript leaf)

Supports

  • Etching,
  • medium weight cream wove paper,
  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Geography

Place of Publication: Bologna

Dimensions

24.8 x 17.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 inches) (closed)

Identification

Edition

First edition

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

1997.58.3

Type

  • Books

Exhibition History

The Festive City
Dec 21, 2012 – Jul 14, 2013

Label copy

Design for the First Arch.

For the visit of Pope Clement VIII to Bologna in 1598, the artist Guido Reni etched the plates for this volume that recorded and explained the decorations for the pope’s ceremonial visit. The city constructed temporary triumphal arches that flattered the pope’s power and proclaimed the city’s gratitude to him, marking the route for his entourage. Here, Reni shows us the first triumphal arch framing the long, wide, main street with its regular and classicizing facades, turning the papal entry into a classical Imperial triumphal procession. The ephemeral arch frames a sharply perspectival view of the city and the next arch in the distance. Both arches only remain known to us in these black-and-white etchings, which the text tells us were “all painted with the finest colors” and decorated with stucco and papiermâché

statues and Latin inscriptions praising Bologna’s prosperity under papal rule.

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Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642), designer
Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642), printmaker
Vittoria Benacci (Italian, d. 1629), author
Descrittione degli Apparati Fatti in Bologna per la venuta di N.S. Papa Clemente VIII (Description of the apparati made in Bologna for the entrance...; Description of the apparati made in Bologna for the entrance of Our Lord Pope Clement VIII, 1599
Bound book with etchings; vellum binding (discarded manuscript leaf)
24.8 x 17.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 inches) (closed)
Gift of the Fazzano Brothers 1997.58.3

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