Stefano Orlandi
Imperial baths - atrium and stairways
Imperial baths - atrium and stairways
Stefano Orlandi (1681 Bologna – 1760)
Counterpart to « Imperial baths »
Oil on canvas
122,5 x 174 cm
The rediscovery of these two paintings, which were known only from photographs and were published as “lost” in 1991, represents an important contribution to architectural perspective painting created in Bologna during the 18th century.
Prov.: Foresti collection, Milan (until 1930),
European private collection
Lit.: C. Ricci: The Art of Scenography, in: The Art Bulletin, 1928, X, fig. 2.,
Mercedes Viale Ferrero: La scenografia del’700 e i fratelli Galliari, Turin, 1963, p. 12.,
E. Landi, Stefano Orlandi (1681 – 1760) Terme Imperiali, in Pinacoteca di Brera Scuola emiliana, Milan, 1991, p. 232.
Prov.: Foresti collection, Milan (until 1930),
European private collection
Lit.: C. Ricci: The Art of Scenography, in: The Art Bulletin, 1928, X, fig. 2.,
Mercedes Viale Ferrero: La scenografia del’700 e i fratelli Galliari, Turin, 1963, p. 12.,
E. Landi, Stefano Orlandi (1681 – 1760) Terme Imperiali, in Pinacoteca di Brera Scuola emiliana, Milan, 1991, p. 232.
