Italia antiqua, 2014-15
GPC-1450
Pencil and collage on paper
35 x 50 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Italia antiqua” / Giulio Paolini / 2014-15”
Private collection
• Eye: engraving portraying the interior of the theatre at Besançon designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux; reproduction from Claude Nicolas Ledoux, L’Architecture 2 (Paris: 1804), p. 113.
• Image at the centre from Conrad G. Mueller, Mae Rudolph et al., Luce e visione (Milan: Mondadori, 1968), p. 149.
• Black and white figure: Lorenzo Bartolini, Narcissus, first half of the 19th century, plaster, h 184 cm, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence; reproduction from Lorenzo Bartolini, exhibition catalogue, Prato, Palazzo Pretorio (Florence: Centro Di, 1978), p. 68.
• Background image: Circus Flaminius E Veterum Monumentis In Lucem Eductus, engraving, 42.4 x 54 cm, in Theatrum Civitatum at Admirandorum Italiæ (Amsterdam: Ioannis Blaeu, 1663).
| 2016 | Paris, Galerie Italienne, Metamorphosis, 13 October - 25 November. |
| • | G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini. Expositio, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2016), p. 60 (general commentary on the series Italia antiqua). |
