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GIUSEPPE VASI Two etchings of Rome.
All'Altrezza Reale Eminentissima di errigo Bendetto Maria Vescovo di Frascati . . . . Basilica Vaticana, 1774 * L'Interno della Basilica Vaticana . . . , 1775. Both approximately 705x970 mm; 27 3/4x38 1/4 inches, small margins. Good impressions of these monumental etchings.
Sicilian born Vasi (1710-1782) worked in Rome from 1746 to 1761 and created a series of Vedute or views of the city's great architecture which predated those by Piranesi (though Vasi's views are more straight-forward and less grandiose than Piranesi's). For a short time in the 1740s, Piranesi apprenticed with Vasi in Rome.
