Domenico Cunego (Verona,1727 – Rome, 8 January 1803)[1][2] was an Italian printmaker.
Cunego was born in Verona. Having studied under the otherwise-unknown painter Francesco Ferrari, he began his artistic career as a painter, producing several works, all of which are now lost or untraceable. At age 18, however, he switched to engraving (a field in which he was possibly self-taught). He died in Rome.
The engravings he made depicting Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, published in Gavin Hamilton's Schola Italica Picturae (1773), were an important source for the artists of his time.[3] He is notable not only for reproducing paintings by his famous fellow-countrymen like Guido Reni and Italian contemporaries such as Antonio Balestra, Francesco Solimena, and Felice Boscaratti, but also works by British artists in Italy catering to Grand Tourists. The latter included Gavin Hamilton's cycle of 6 works on the Iliad and David Allan's Origin of Portraiture.
His sons Luigi (b. 1750, d. 1823 [4]) and Giuseppe (b. 1760) were also engravers.[2]
Worksedit
Engraving of the admiralty building in Whitehall, London. Building is shown before alterations by Robert Adam.
Illustrations for the 3-volume catalogue of Giacomo Muselli's coin collection, in collaboration with Dionigi Valesi (1752, 1756, 1760). Internet Archive
Views of Verona after drawings by T. Majeroni (1750s)
St Thomas of Villanova (1757), after a painting by Antonio Balestra (a frequent source for Cunego)
Some of the engravings for Ruins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalato in Dalmatia. by Robert Adam, 1764
Notesedit
^"Domenico Cunego | Entombment of Christ". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-12; Note: Domenico Cunego (Italian,Verona, 1727– Rome, 1803){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^ abBryan, Michael (1903). Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers, Vol. 1. A-C, p. 361; Note: "CUNEGO, Domenico, an Italian designer and engraver, was born at Verona in 1727, and died at Rome in 1794". (which contradicts the date of death set at 1803...)
^Tomory, Peter (1972). The life and art of Henry Fuseli. Praeger. p. 111
^"Luigi Cunego | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-04-10; Engraver. Son of engraver Domenico Cunego. Died 1823{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
Sourcesedit
Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art.
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