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Book title page of "Collection of Pictorial Subjects created by Florentine painter Luigi Sabbatelli" (1804)

Pietro Paolo Montagnani aka Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili (Rome, 1740 - date of death unknown) is a late 18th C. - early 19th C. Italian engraver (burin) and publisher of books and prints who lived presumably in Florence, Italy, around 1800 - 1820.

Around 1790 Pietro Paolo Montagnani published a series of engravings picturing the Sibyls (Latin: Sibylla, s.; -ae, pl.) by talented Italian engravers such as Girolamo Carattoni (ca.1760 – ca. 1809), Domenico Cunego, Giovanni Folo and Giovanni Petrini (active 1800–1812) after paintings by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino), Domenico Zampieri (il Domenichino) and Sebastiano Conca.

In 1805, Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili published a book on "ancient monuments, news on the antiquities and fine arts of Rome", Vol. VIII (or, more likely, VII, according to some scholars, attributing it to a typographical error in transcribing the Roman numeral in later imprints or facsimile editions). This book contained multiple engravings of ancient statues and bas-reliefs by Gio(vanni) Pietrini inc. (incisore, i.e. engraver) after drawings by (Aloysius) L(uigi) Agricola dis. (disegnatore, i.e. draughtsman) and F(ilip.) Salari dis.; by P(ietro) Ghigi inc. after F. Salari dis.; by Ant(onio) Ricciani inc. & G(irolamo) Carattoni inc. after drawings by L. Agricola dis.and F. Salari dis.; by L(uigi) Cunego (1750 – 1823) inc. It also contains architectural drawings engraved by Gio(vanni) Bruni inc., after drawings by Piet. Holl dis. and Micinelli dis.

Pietro Ducros (1745 or 1748-1810), a talented Swiss-born painter and engraver, joined forces with a Paolo Montagnari, who is possibly the same man as Paolo Montagnani, to publish 24 vedute of Sicily and Malta, with a certain success. The series published probably around 1789 by Montagnari included vedute of "Palermo, near Monreale"; of the "Theater of Taormina"; of the "Etna volcano"; of the "Amphitheater of Siracusa", of the "Interior of the city of Messina after the earthquake of 1783", and of the "Port of the galleys of the Arsenal of Malta".

The Cumaean Sibyl, Engraving by Gio. Folo after Dom. Zampieri, il Domenichino (c. 1790)
The Tiburtine Sibyl. Engraving by G. Carattoni & G. Magnani after S. Conca (ca.1790)

Publications

References

  1. "Oxford Art Online - Search Results for : Montagnani". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  2. ^ Bryan, Michael; Williamson, George Charles (1904). Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers. Vol. III : H-M (of 5 vols.). New York : Macmillan. p. 356 – via New York Public Library; Archive.org. MONTAGNANI, Pietro Paolo, engraver, was born at Rome in 1740. With P. Ducros he engraved twenty-four views of Sicily and Malta.
  3. "Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  4. "Collection search : Montagnani-Mirabili". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  5. "Luigi Agricola | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Luigi Agricola (ca. 1750 - after 1805){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  6. "Filip. Salari | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Filip. Salari (born, Florence. ca. 1805?){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. "Antonio Ricciani | The Death of Priamus". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-11; Note : Antonio Ricciani (Italian, Rome 1775/76–1847 Naples){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  8. "Girolamo Carattoni | The Tiburtine Sibyl". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-11; Note: Girolamo Carattoni (Italian, ca.1760–ca. 1809){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  9. "Girolamo Carattoni | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Girolamo Carattoni (born, fl. 1782 - 1820?){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  10. Bryan, Michael (1903). Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers, Volume 1. G. Bell and sons, p. 361; Note: "CUNEGO, Luigi, the elder son and pupil of Domenico Cunego, was born at Verona in 1750. He chiefly resided at Leghorn. We have by him a few plates, of which the following are the principal : The  Statue  of  the  Apollo  Belvedere; St.  Margaret, after  Guercino; The  Persian  Sibyl, after  the  same. Mary  Magdalene, after Guido."
  11. "Luigi Cunego | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Engraver. Son of engraver Domenico Cunego. Died 1823{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  12. "Gio. Bruni | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Gio. Bruni (born, fl. ca. 1785?){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  13. "Piet. Holl | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Piet. Holl (born, fl. ca. 1805){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  14. "Micinelli | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Micinelli (born, fl. ca. 1805){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  15. Guattani, Giuseppe Antonio (1784). Monumenti antichi inediti, ovvero, Notizie sulle antichità e belle arti di Roma per l'anno MDCCCV [Unpublished ancient monuments, or, news on the antiquities and fine arts of Rome, in 1805.] (in Italian). Vol. VII. Getty Research Institute. Roma: stamperia Pagliarini. pp. 6, 8. OCLC 1049634599; (Imprint for vol. from 1805: "In Roma : Presso Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili"){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  16. Labitte, Adolphe, libraire de la Bibl. Nat. (1877). "Beaux-Arts" [Fine Arts]. Catalogue d'une collection de beaux livres anciens et modernes, ornés de figures et très-bien reliés, sur les Arts, la Littérature et l'Histoire. (Cat. de vente - Drouot) [Catalogue of a collection of fine ancient and modern books, decorated with figures and very well bound, on the Arts, Literature and History. (Sales Cat. - Drouot)] (in French). Paris. p. 9. 69. Monumenti antichi inediti, notizie sulla' antichità e belle arti di Roma. In Roma, presso Paolo Montagnari-Mirabili,1803, in-4, figures, demi-rel. bas.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. Agassiz, Daisy (1927). "Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Du Cros : peintre et graveur, 1748-1810" [Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Du Cros : painter and engraver, 1748-1810]. Revue Historique Vaudoise. Vol. 35e année. (in French). Lausanne: Éditions Spes.: 13. doi:10.5169/seals-27797. Retrieved 2023-04-15 – via E-Periodica (ETH-Bibliothek, Zürich) (in German). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. Olivier-Poli, Gioacchino Maria (1824). Continuazione al Nuovo Dizionario Istorico degli uomini che si sono renduti piu' celebri per talenti, virtu', scelleratezze, errori, ec., la quale abbraccia il periodo degli ultimi 40 anni dell' era volgare [Continuation of the New Historical Dictionary of people who have made themselves most famous for talents, virtues, wickedness, errors, etc., which covers the period of the last 40 years of the common era] (in Italian). Vol. III. Napoli: R. Marotta e Vanspandoch. p. 399.
  19. "Monumenti Antichi Inediti Ovvero Notizie Sulle Antichità E Belle Arti Di Roma Per L'Anno MDCCLXXXIV. (- MDCCCV.) Dedicati Alla Santità Di Nostro Signore Papa Pio VI. Felicemente Regnante. | Books | RA Collection | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  20. "Giovanni Petrini". www.cassiciaco.it. Retrieved 2023-04-11; Note : Giovanni Petrini fu unnotevole e famoso incisore settecentesco. Nacque a Roma nel 1750. Non si conosce nè la data né il luogo del decesso : Giovanni Petrini was an outstanding and famous 18th century engraver. He was born in Rome in 1750. Neither the date nor the place of his death is known.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  21. "Giuseppe Perini | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Giuseppe Perini (1748 - after 1795){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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