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Il claustro di S. Michele in Bosco di Bologna : dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci, e da altri eccellenti maestri uscita dalla sua scola

Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, conte, 1616-1693, Carracci, Lodovico, 1555-1619, Giovannini, Giacomo-Maria, 1667-1717, Fabbri, Marcantonio, Eredi di Antonio Pisarri · 1694 · In Bologna : Per gli eredi d'Antonio Pisarri · 32 pictures

A 1694 Bologna publication by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, printed for the heirs of Antonio Pisarri, reproducing the murals of the cloister of San Michele in Bosco painted by Lodovico Carracci and his school. The engravings, made by Giacomo-Maria Giovannini and Marcantonio Fabbri, are for art scholars and painters. Their plates show crowded classical architecture, muscular figures in dramatic action, and swirling clouds of saints and angels, offering a designer studies in baroque figure composition, foreshortening, and staged drapery.

San Michele in Bosco (Monastery : Bologna, Italy) · Mural painting and decoration

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