Giacomo Raffaelli
Nicola De Vecchis
Nicola De Vecchis
Pair of vases, end of the 18th century
Pair of vases in statuary marble with acanthus leaf wreaths modelled in relief in the lower part and on the upper neck and vertical grooving down the entire body; in the centre large circular frieze in micro-mosaic with griffins drinking from kraters, festoons borne by bucrania and birds alternating with blue medallions bearing altars and aediculae; porphyry bases
Exhibition
Mosaici minuti romani del ‘700 e dell’800, Vatican City, Charlemagne Wing, October-November 1986, no. 32;
Fasto Romano. Dipinti, sculture, arredi dai Palazzi di Roma, Rome, Palazzo Sacchetti, 15 May – 30 June 1991, no. 206;
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 16 March
28 May 2000; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 25 June
17 September 2000, no. 67
Fasto Romano. Dipinti, sculture, arredi dai Palazzi di Roma, Rome, Palazzo Sacchetti, 15 May – 30 June 1991, no. 206;
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 16 March
28 May 2000; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 25 June
17 September 2000, no. 67
Dimension
Height: 58 cm
Bibliography
- Mosaici minuti romani del ‘700 e dell’800, exhibition catalogue (Vatican City, Charlemagne Wing, October – November 1986), ed. M. Alfieri, M. G. Branchetti, G. Cornini, Città di Castello 1986, cat. 32, p. 72;
- A. González-Palacios, Mosaici e pietre dure: mosaici a piccole tessere, pietre dure a Parigi e a Napoli, Milan 1982, vol. I, p. 19.
- R. Valeriani, entry in Fasto Romano. Dipinti, sculture, arredi dai Palazzi di Roma, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Palazzo Sacchetti, 15 May – 30 June 1991), Rome 1991, cat. 206, pp. 231, 233;
