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Giovanni Ghisolfi studied ancient remains in Rome and worked in close contact with Salvator Rosa. Architecture provides a structural framework for his landscapes, whose clear compositions embody a luminous classicism. His relationship with Rosa is best understood as artistic collaboration.
The Princely Collections of Liechtenstein hold Roman Ruins with the Three Columns of the Temple of Vespasian, an oil painting on canvas measuring 49 by 66 centimetres. The monumental fragment becomes the subject of the painting itself. At the National Gallery of Victoria, Augustus at the Tomb of Alexander, around 1664–1671, uses black chalk with white highlights on brown paper. This sheet, measuring 19.1 by 26 centimetres, brings architectural representation together with the evocation of ancient history.
This profile brings together identity references for Giovanni Ghisolfi and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Zwei Architekturcapriccios mit antiken Ruinen und Figurenstaffage
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2017-05-20
Published result : 9300 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Ghisolfi, Giovanni — zugeschrieben Der Hauptmann von Kafarnaum fragt Jesus, ob er seinen kranken Diener heilen könne (nach Matthäus 8, 5-13)
Öl auf Leinwand
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2019-06-28
Attributed
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Ghisolfi, Giovanni — zugeschrieben Der Hauptmann von Kafarnaum fragt Jesus, ob er seinen kranken Diener heilen könne (nach Matthäus 8, 5-13)
Öl auf Leinwand
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2019-03-22
Attributed
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 7000–10000
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