Luigi Rossini
Luigi Rossini (born December 15, 1790 in Ravenna , † April 22, 1857 in Rome ) was an Italian artist, best known for his etchings of ancient Roman architecture.
life and work
Rossini was born in Ravenna; as he himself writes in his autobiography, he was a cousin of the composer Gioachino Rossini . He studied at the Academy of Bologna with Antonio Giuseppe Basoli and Giovanni Antonio Antolini and graduated as an architect and painter in 1813. As early as 1812 he was present at the excavations at the Vespasian temple in the Roman Forum and had made a drawing which in 1910 served to determine the location of the demolished building of the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus.
Like his predecessor Piranesi, Rossini focused on remaining ancient Roman architecture and on excavations in Rome and the city's surroundings; he reproduced the classical architecture of Rome and Latium in extremely fine detail . In contrast to Piranesi, he more often placed the Roman ruins in bucolic frames in his etchings. His images of architectural masterpieces from ancient Rome, including the Pantheon , the Colosseum , Appian Street , the Temple of Peace , and the Golden House of Nero , have greatly influenced architects, artists, writers and other admirers of Roman culture to this day.
His first series of vedutas was published in 1814. He began his series of "Roman Antiquities" (Antichità romane) in 1819; To this end, he created 101 large folio plates that were published in Rome in 1825. The following etchings by Rossini show views from Lazio.
Inside of the Temple of Hercules at Cori (in antiquity: Cora )
Aqueducts at Tivoli (in ancient times: Tibur )
Roman Hollenstein describes Rossini (in the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung ) on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to him at the max museo in Chiasso (2014) as the "most important Roman engraver in the successor of Giovanni Battista Piranesi ."
literature
- Filippo Mordani: Vita di Luigi Rossini Ravennate architetto e incisore . Dalla Stamperia Bordandini, Forlì 1865 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Ralph Van Deman Magoffin: Rossini . In: Art and Archeology . tape 5 . Archaeological Institute of America, Washington 1917, p. 203–212 (English, text archive - Internet Archive - biography with 12 images).
- L. Servolini: Rossini, Luigi . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 75 .
- Giuseppe Lugli: Rossini, Luigi. In: Enciclopedia Italiana. 1936 ( treccani.it ).
- Nullo Pirazzoli: Luigi Rossini (1790-1857). In: Roma antica restaurata. Edizioni Essegi, Ravenna 1990.
Web links
- Rossini, Luigi. In: General Artist Lexicon - international artist database degruyter.com (by subscription or through large libraries).
- Rossini, Luigi Enciclopedia on line
- The max museo in Chiasso
Individual evidence
- ^ Luigi Rossini: Le città del Lazio. 1826, edizione di Vincenzo Pacifici, Tivoli, 1943, pp. 7-26 ( societatiburtinastoriaarte.it PDF).
- ↑ Christian Hülsen: The latest excavations on the Roman Forum . Loescher, Rome 1910, p. 6–7 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ^ R. Hollenstein: Rome vedute by Luigi Rossini: With archaeological precision. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. - Art & Architecture ( nzz.ch ), accessed on April 12, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rossini, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravenna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1857 |
| Place of death | Rome |