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A woodcut showing the Emperor Maximilian in a triumphal chariot.
This large woodcut, over 2 metres in length, was originally planned as part of a huge printed frieze. The work, undertaken by a team of designers and woodblock cutters, was to show a triumph
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ANGELO CAMPANELLA (1746–1811) AFTER ANTON VON MARON (1733–1808)

A Roman fresco in the grounds of Villa Negroni: The Drunken Hercules

published by Camillo Buti, Rome, 1781

RCIN 705167.f

In 1777 an ancient house was excavated in the grounds of Villa Negroni, Rome, revealing rooms with well-preserved frescoes. Between 1778 and 1802 the architect Camillo Buti oversaw the production of twelve prints reproducing the frescoes, after Anton Raphael Mengs and his brother-in-law Anton von Maron. The plates were only lightly etched with the intention that the published impressions would be heavily hand-coloured, in the intense reds, blues and purples that are described in contemporary accounts of the paintings.


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