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In the Library: Print Culture and the Arts in Genoa

Agostino Fransone, Luciano Borzone, Jérôme David, engraving in Nobiltà di Genova (Genoa: Nella stampa di Pietro Giovanni Calenzano e Gio. Maria Farroni, 1636), National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Raffaele Soprani, Domenico Piola, Georges Tasinière, Allegory of the Arts, engraved frontispiece in Le vite de pittori, scoltori, et architetti Genovesi (Genoa: Per G. Bottaro e G. B. Tiboldi, 1674), National Gallery of Art, William B. O’Neal Fund, 2015.107.1

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Raffaele Soprani, Domenico Piola, Georges Tasinière, engraved portrait of Bernardo Castello in Le vite de pittori, scoltori, et architetti Genovesi (Genoa: Per G. Bottaro e G. B. Tiboldi, 1674), National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Raffaele Soprani, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Giovanni Lorenzo Guidotti, engraved portrait of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione in Le vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti Genovesi, volume 1 (Genoa: Nella stamperia Casamara, 1768), National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, etching on laid paper, 1640/1647, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Neil Phillips, 1997.16.1

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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, The Genius of Castiglione, etching, before 1648, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Ruth B. Benedict in memory of William S. Benedict, 1981.56.1

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Raffaele Soprani, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Giuseppe Sforza Perini, engraved portrait of Domenico Piola in Le vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti Genovesi, volume 2 (Genoa: Nella stamperia Casamara, 1769), National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Domenico Piola, Blessed Maria Vittoria Fornari’s Vision of the Trinity, pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite, with additions in black chalk, on laid paper, c. 1670, National Gallery of Art, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.192

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Torquato Tasso, Bernardo Castello, Camillo Cungio, engraved frontispiece in La Gerusalemme liberata (Genoa: Appresso Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617), National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Massimilano Deza, Domenico Piola, Martial Desbois, engraved frontispiece in Istoria della famiglia Spinola, descritta dalla sua origine fino al secolo XVI (Piacenza: Nella Stampa Ducale di Giovanni Bazachi, 1694), National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund

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Bernardo Castello, David Playing the Harp before Saul, pen and black and brown ink with black chalk and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper squared in black chalk, c. 1602, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2019.126.1

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Torquato Tasso, Bernardo Castello, Agostino Carracci, engraving in La Gerusalemme liberata (Genoa: Appresso Girolamo Bartoli, 1590), National Gallery of Art Library, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund

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