Architectural detail of an elaborate cornice, seen from below
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Catalogue
- Year
- 1680
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed): 7 3/16 × 9 13/16 in. (18.3 × 25 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist
Painting
Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at Bologna and Genoa about 1690. He engraved a series of architectural subjects, and decorations for the theatre, after Francesco Galli Bibiena, and others after Marcantonio Chiarini.
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- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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