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Title Temperantia  -  Fortitudo
Maker P. Antonio Pazzi
Year 1762
Description Antique print ( copper engraving ) of the virtues Temperance and Fortude  engraved byP. Antoni Puzzi after one of the frescoes Domenico Zapieri painted for the Abbey of Grottaferrata (near Rome). This Abbey was founded by St. Nilus of Rossano and St.Bartolomeus in 1004. The frescoes were commissioned from Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese;  the titular Abbot of this Abbey. The source of this print is: Picturae Dominici Zampierii, vulgo Domenichino, quae extant in sacello sacrae aedi Cryptoferratensi adjuncto tabulis aeneis incisae.(1762). The plates for this work were engraved by F. Bartolozzi, P.A. Pazzi, A. Cappelan and C. Gregori 
Location/Subject Antique prints / Mythology / Virtues / Fortitude / Temperence
Condition Fine; some water stains of the (very wide) margin. Two wormholes of the upper margin (near the upper edge)
Coloring Black / White
Image size The overall size is 19 x 14 inch. Plate size is 10 1/4 x 9,5 inch
Price $ 375.00

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