Personification of Architecture with the Genius of the Fine Arts
Felice Giani
1797
Medium
etching and aquatint printed in red-brown on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.9 × 30 cm (9 × 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 30.4 × 44.1 cm (11 15/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2017.56.2
About the Artist
Felice Giani · 1758–1823
Died 21 January 1823. Giani was a student of C.A. Bianchi and Antonio Galli Bibiena in Pavia; from 1778 he was a student of Dom. Pedrini and Ub. Gandolfi in Bologna; from 1780 he was a student of P. Batoni, Chr. Unterberger and G. Antolini at the Academy of S. Luca in Rome.