Piazza di Spagna, Rome
Artist
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
(American, 1890 - 1983)
Date1927
MediumEtching on blued paper
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches (18.72 × 25.07 cm)
Framed: 15 × 20 inches (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Framed: 15 × 20 inches (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number53-51/148
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Gallery LabelTrained architect Louis Conrad Rosenberg traveled the globe to interpret in prints the world's most celebrated buildings. For this etching, he turned his keen eye to one of Rome's popular meeting places, the Spanish Square. Although the composition is animated with shoppers, laborers and loiterers, the building facades, rather than the figures, were the artist's focus.
Piazza di Spagna, Rome, is a drypoint etching. The fine lines that compose this image were scratched directly into a metal plate without the aid of acid. This process created burrs, or ragged ridges, that held ink just like the incised furrows and contributed a rich, velvety quality to the resulting lines.
Piazza di Spagna, Rome, is a drypoint etching. The fine lines that compose this image were scratched directly into a metal plate without the aid of acid. This process created burrs, or ragged ridges, that held ink just like the incised furrows and contributed a rich, velvety quality to the resulting lines.
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