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Guido Reni, designer and printmaker

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..., 1599

Description

Maker

  • Vittoria Benacci, d. 1629, Italian, author
  • Guido Reni, 1575-1642, Italian, designer and printmaker

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...

Year

1599

Medium

Bound book with etchings; vellum binding (discarded manuscript leaf)

Materials/Techniques

Supports

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

Dimensions

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

Identification

Edition

First edition

Place

Bologna

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Books

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

1997.58.3

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Festive City

December 21, 2012 - July 14, 2013

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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