A View of the Vestibule of St. Peter at Rome
Medium
mezzotint printed in black
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Accession Number
2022.129
Tags
About this artwork
After returning from several years spent in Italy, the French printmaker George-Francois Blondel settled in London in order to take advantage of the English taste for images of Italian sites. This is one of a series of eight prints he published in 1766 depicting imagined and real Italian interiors. Using the relatively new technique of mezzotint, which creates velvety, dark tonal areas, as well as low vantage points, Blondel created towering, awe-inspiring spaces. For special patrons, he printed...