Portret van dichter en historicus Ludovico Savioli

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collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Art Historical Context

Behold the intricate *Portret van dichter en historic Ludovico Savioli an engraving by the Italian artist Girolamo Carattoni, created sometime between 1767 and1809. This modest yet finely detailed portrait (217mm × 148mm) captures the likeness of Ludovico Savioli, a poet and historian from Bologna, whose intellectual pursuits embodied the Enlightenment-era fascination with literature and history. Carattoni, a skilled engraver working in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, immortalizes Savioli with precise lines and subtle shading, highlighting the subject's dignified features and scholarly...