School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Giuseppe Vasi

Born: 1710, Italy, Sicily, Corleone   Died: 1782

Engraver and architect. Born in Sicily but studied and worked in Rome. Worked in the Calografia Camerale, the main institution in Rome dedicated to etching and engraving, before later starting to work on his own selling his prints to grand tourists. His workshop housed the young Giovannia Battista Piranesi, who honed his technique under Vasi’s instruction. From 1747 to 1761 he published a series of ten volumes of c. 240 vedute engravings, titled Vedute di Roma, which is perhaps what he is best known for. He also created 15 tablet engravings of opera scenes designed by Vincenzo Re, some of which remain in the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Vasi was also famous as a cartographer and writer, producing a giant map of Rome in the 1760s and writing 9 out of the 10 books of the ‘Magnificenze’ and the ‘Itinerario Istruttivo’.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Piazza della Rotonda PR3611 Prints




 
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