Works in this Section
Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) Etching in black ink on laid paper “Cap. Bonbardon and Cap. Grillo,” (1621-22) From the series, Dances of Sfessania. 1621 (Ballie di Sfessania) 2 5/8 in. x 3 ½ in. Private Collection of George Dodds
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, Italian 1710-1782) Etching on Laid Paper. “The Villa Madama outside the Angelica Door”. From, Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (1761). Plate Mark: 8 ½ x 13 3/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) Etching in black ink on laid paper “The Commander on Foot,”(1623). From the 2nd Series of Caprices. First of Two States. 2 1/8 in. x 3 1/8 in. Private Collection of George Dodds
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, Italian 1710-1782) Etching on Laid Paper. “Tiber Island looking West”. From, Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (1761). First Edition. Plate Mark: 8 3/8 x 12 ¾ Private Collection of George Dodds
Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) “Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet” (c. 1618) From, The Large Passion series Etching in black ink on laid paper 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Private Collection of George Dodds
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, Italian 1710-1782) Etching on Laid Paper. “Antiquities flanking the Palantine Bridge”. From, Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (1761). First Edition. Plate Marks: 8 3/8 x 12 7/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635) “Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet” (c. 1618) From, The Large Passion series Etching in black ink on laid paper 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Private Collection of George Dodds
Andrea Pozzo, (Trentino/Italian, 1642-1709) “Figura 6,” From, PERSPECTIVA PICTORUM ET ARCHITECTORUM. (1693-1698, Rome.) Engraving, Ink on foolscap, First Edition. Plate Marks: 6 ½ x 9 1/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Attributed to Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642) Etching in black ink on laid paper “Study of two heads” 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Private Collection of George Dodds
Andrea Pozzo, (Trentino/Italian, 1642-1709) “Figura 7,” From, PERSPECTIVA PICTORUM ET ARCHITECTORUM. (1693-1698, Rome.) Engraving, Ink on foolscap, First Edition. Plate Marks: 6 ½ x 9 1/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Claudio Coello (Spanish 1642-1693) Original Pen and ink and on Foolscap in the manner of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (1657-1743). 8 3/4 x 8'' Coello’s career centered in Madrid at the Escorial. 8 ¾ in. x 8 in. Private Collection of George Dodds
Andrea Pozzo, (Trentino/Italian, 1642-1709) “Figura 8,” From, PERSPECTIVA PICTORUM ET ARCHITECTORUM. (1693-1698, Rome.) Engraving, Ink on foolscap, First Edition. Plate Marks: 6 ½ x 9 1/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, Italian 1710-1782) Etching on Laid Paper. “Secondo Prospetto del Casino di Villa Madama”. From, Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (1761). Plate Mark: 8 ½ x 13 3/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Andrea Pozzo, (Trentino/Italian, 1642-1709) “Figura 17,” From, PERSPECTIVA PICTORUM ET ARCHITECTORUM. (1693-1698, Rome.) Engraving, Ink on foolscap, First Edition. Plate Marks: 6 ½ x 9 1/8 Private Collection of George Dodds
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano, Veneto, Italian 1720-1778) “Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Mummy superimposed on a large caryatid above the lintel,” Etching, ink on Laid Paper. From, Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte all'architettura Egizia, Etrusca, e Greca con un Ragionamento apologetico in defesa dell'Architettura Egizia, e Toscana, opera del Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi Architetto. (1769). Probably a later Paris Edition. Private Collection of George Dodds
James Stuart (1713-1788) and Nicholas Revett (1720-1804), (with J. J. Hittorff), Les Antiquites d'Athenes et de l'Attique Mesurees et Dessinees, Tome Premier-Cinquieme (1-5 in a single volume), 1881, First edition, Librairie Centrale d'Architecture, Paris, French text, hardcover, folio (18 ½ x 12 ¾ in.) Stuart and Revett traveled through, and documented the antiquities of, southern Italy and Greece from 1748 to 1755. They published their work in a series of five separate volumes. The first volume, published in 1762 in London, had more than 500 subscribers (a huge number for the period) was titled: The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated by James Stuart F R S and F S A and Nicholas Revett, Painters And Architects. Volume One. Few of the subscribers were architects or builders, which limited the impact of the work as a design sourcebook but magnified its influence among the collecting and “patron class”. It was also well received by scholars, antiquarians and gentleman-amateurs, all of whom were hungry for demonstrations of Greek hegemony over the arts. Stuart’s design of the book’s binding had a Neo-Classical design and inspired architect Robert Adam to design similar presentation bindings for his work on the antiquities of Spalatro. Antiquities of Athens helped shape the European understanding of ancient Greece, much to the chagrin of Piranesi. It brought an entirely new design vocabulary to late-8th-century European architecture and design, which Piranesi spent much of the last two decades of his life to counter. The drawings occupying the center of this exhibition were produced in support of that propaganda effort to raise the art and architecture o the Italian peninsula (based on Eyptian and Etruscan roots) over than of Greece. Ironically, Piranesi’s own etchings of fireplace surrounds became an essential accompaniment to the Stuart and Revett sourcebook for the 19th-century Greek Revival in The United States and Great Britain. From the Private Collection of George Dodds
Giambattista Nolli (1692-1756). Nuova pianta di Roma, 1748. Facsimile by Allan Ceen, (1984) from a set owned by Henry A. Millon, Dean of The National Gallery of the Art, (CASVA), Washington, DC. 12 plates (69 ¼ in. x 81 ¾ in.) Private Collection of George Dodds
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, Italian 1710-1782) Indice Istorico del gran prospetto di Roma: Ovvero, Itinerario istruttivo per ritrovare con facilita. Tutte le antiche e moderne magnificenze de Roma, con una breve digressione sopra alcune citta e castelli suburbani. Rome, 1765. Translation: Historical index of the great summary of Rome: That is, an instructive itinerary to ease and facilitate locating all the ancient and modern magnificence of Rome, with a brief digression including some suburban cities and castles. Hardcover, 6.5 x 3.75 inches. Contemporary full vellum, gilt spine and title. Private Collection of George Dodds
Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, Italian 1710-1782) Vasi (Giuseppe) Nuova Pianta di Roma in Prospettiva Dedicata a Sua Eccellenza il Principe d'Abondio Rezzonico Senatore di Roma, Half-size Reproduction of Plan of Rome with a key to 217 locations. Original is engraving, ink on two sheets of laid paper conjoined 29 7/8 in. x 40 1/8 in.), full margins, printed in Rome, 1781. The plan was to accompany the earlier Indice Istorico del gran prospetto di Roma….(1765) and folded into an easy-to-carry “portfolio-sized” addition to the guidebook. From the Private Collection of George Dodds
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Professor George Dodds speaks to his Spring 2021 architecture studio at the University of Tennessee
