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Italia antiqua, 2014-15

GPC-1456

Collage on paper

50 x 70 cm

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Italia antiqua” / Giulio Paolini / 2014-15”

Private collection, Alessandria

Figure at the top: Nicolas Poussin, Écho et Narcisse, c. 1630, oil on canvas, 74 x 100 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris; reproduction from L’opera completa di Poussin. Classici dell’arte 72 (Milan: Rizzoli, 1974), plate X, no. 49.
Figure at the bottom: sculpture of Apollo, unknown source.
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. [64].
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).
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 04/08/2026