Italia antiqua, 2014-15
GPC-1458
Collage on black paper
50 x 70 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Italia antiqua” / Giulio Paolini / 2014-15”
Collection of the artist
• Figure: Dying Niobe, Roman copy of an original from the Late Hellenistic period, marble, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 279, fig. 147 (“Son of Niobe”).
• 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 | Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Expositio. Giulio Paolini per il Poldi Pezzoli, 6 May - 5 September, col. repr. p. [68]. |
| • | 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). |