Juno II. (1734)

By: Gennaro Guttierez - Gori, Antonio Francesco (pub.). Campiglia (del.).

Size: 15.25 H x 10.00 W inches

Source: Gori, Antonio Francesco. Museum Florentinum: Statuae antiquae deorum et virorum illustrium. Florentiae: Moucke, 1734.

Item #: 80822

Original engraving, 13.5 x 8.5”. Signed and titled in the plate below the image. From the Gori’s Museum Florentinum. Fine.(From Wikipedia): Antonio Francesco Gori, (9 December 1691 – 20 January 1757), was a Florentine antiquarian, a priest in minor orders, provost of the Baptistery of San Giovanni from 1746, and a professor at the Liceo, whose numerous publications of ancient Roman sculpture and antiquities formed part of the repertory on which 18th-century scholarship as well as the artistic movement of neoclassicism were based. In 1735 he was a founding member of a circle of antiquaries and connoisseurs in Florence called the Società Colombaria. Museum Florentinum:The major undertaking that gave Gori a European reputation was under way from the early 1730s, when Gori started work on the Museum Florentinum, a comprehensive visual record of the Medici and other collections in Florence of antiquities of all kinds; the project eventually extended to twelve folio volumes, published 1731–1766. Gori employed artists like Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Giovanni Domenico Ferretti and Antonio Pazzi to draw copies of famous works of which he oversaw the engraving and publication. Statuae Antiquae Deorum et Virorum Illustrium (1734) (from which this print originated) was on Roman statues and monuments, with 100 plates; it was dedicated to Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, last of the Medici Grand Dukes, whose collection dominated the publication. The Museum Florentinum described for the first time many of the sculptures and antiquities in the Medici collections.