Italia antiqua, 2015-16
GPC-1508
Collage on paper
50 x 70 cm
Dedicated, signed, and dated on the recto, bottom centre: “a Carlo Mandelli, raffinato collezionista / con gratitudine, un’“Italia antiqua” da Giulio Paolini 2015-16”
Private collection, Como
• Wounded Amazon, Roman copy from the Imperial Age of a 5th century BC Greek original, marble, h 202 cm, Musei Capitolini, Rome; reproduction from Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977), p. 211 (“Tivoli Vecchio, Italy, The Canopus of Hadrian’s Villa”).
• Sleeping Hermaphroditus, 2nd century AD Roman copy of a 2nd century BC original, marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 234, fig. 120 (“Hermaphrodite”).
• 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).
