Chiara Travisonni

The collections of Museo Civico d’Arte Antica in Palazzo Madama include four sheets drawn in Turin in 1793 by the Bolognese artist Pietro Giacomo Palmieri during the last period of his career. Those drawings are a sophisticated collage of figures copied from Francesco Londonio’s etchings and evoke the effects of watercolor prints. Palmieri’s taste for emulation of printmaking technique and for pastoral subjects goes back to the time of his early artistic formation in Bologna...