This exhibition contains the fabulous illustrations from a volume of 'Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches and palaces in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries'. The engravings give detailed architectural views of the decorations and structures of many notable buildings throughout Italy, including The Vatican and the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
The frescoes were produced in Italy by the engraver Lewis Grüner. Lewis Grüner's original name is Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Grüner or Ludwig Grüner, and it was on this work where he first used the anglicized name Lewis Grüner. Grüner was born in Dresden, Germany on 24th Feb 1801. Grüner's career took him all over Europe, and he was involved with important works such as the decoration of the Crystal Palace and at the request of The Queen, "The decorations of the garden pavilion out in the grounds of Buckingham Palace" produced in 1846. Grüner returned to Germany as the Director of the Royal Print Rooms in Dresden. He died in Dresden on the 27th February 1882.
The work 'Fresco decorations and stuccoes of churches & palaces in Italy' takes in many notable buildings of renaissance Italy. The work takes in buildings such as The Vatican, the Cathedral of Siena and there is even a plan of the bathroom of Pope Clemens VII, in the Castle of St Angelo in Rome. The work spans much of Italy, from sites in Rome, Parma, Brescia, Pavia, Milan, Perugia and Cremona. There is one engraving which travels away from Italy to show details of Cathedral of Albi, in France.
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