Bartolomeo Pinelli
Bartolomeo Pinelli (November 20, 1771 – April 1, 1835) was an Italian illustrator and engraver.
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[edit] Life
Pinelli was born and died in Rome, the son of a religious statues modeler. Pinelli was educated first in Bologna and then at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He lived in a poor quarter of Rome. His son, Achille Pinelli, was a famous watercolorist in his own right.
An extremely prolific artist, his illustrations depicted the costumes of the Italian people, the great epic poems and numerous other subjects, including popular customs. In general, the most recurring subject is Rome, the ancient city as well as the modern one: its inhabitants and its monuments.
In his first years of independent work, he painted figures in watercolor in the style of the painter Franz Kaiserman. Starting in 1807, he produced an album of 36 watercolors, entitled Scene e Costumi di Roma e del Lazio. His first series of carvings, begun in 1809, was entitled Raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi incisi all'acquaforte. In 1816 he finished the illustrations for his work La Storia Romana (Italian: Roman History) and, in 1821, those for the work La Storia Greca (Italian: Greek History). He also produced a series of prints on La Storia del Brigante Decapitito, about a brigand who, while he sleeps, is decapitated by his wife in revenge for having murdered her child. This particular work illustrates the attention Pinelli lavished on popular tales.[1] Between 1822 and 1823 he finished a set of fifty-two prints for the work Il Meo Patacca.
He died poor on April 1, 1835.
[edit] Works
Oreste Raggi, writing in 1835, the same year that the artist died, cites many of Pinelli's designs and watercolors, and around forty collections of engravings published in Rome under ten different editors.
Among those:
- Collection of Roman costumes (1809) – 50 bronze carvings
- Another collection of Rome costumes – 50 bronze carvings
- The carnival of Rome – one bronze carving
- Roman History – 101 stamps
- History of the emperors, starting from Ottavio – 101 stamps
- Dante, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise – 145 stamps
- Costumes of the Roman countryside (1823) – 50 bronze carvings
- Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered – 72 stamps
- Ariosto's Orlando Furioso – 100 stamps
- Virgil's Aeneid – 50 bronze carvings
- Collection of ancient costumes
- Greek History – 100 bronze carvings
- Costumes of the Kingdom of Naples – 50 bronze carvings (1828)
- Meo Patacca – 50 bronze carvings
- Swiss costumes (1813) – 16 bronze carvings
[edit] Bibliography
- Raggi, Oreste (1835) (in Italian). Cenni intorno alla vita e alle opere di Bartolomeo Pinelli. Roma: Tipografia Salvucci.
- Fagiolo, Maurizio; Maurizio Marini (1983) (in Italian). Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835) e il suo tempo. Roma.
[edit] References
- ^ Crask, Matthew. Art in Europe 1700–1830. pp. 112–114.
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