Description Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 45 x 39.3 cm (17.72 x 15.47 inch). Image size: 45 x 39.3 cm. (17.72 x 15.47 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Original middle fold as published. Bottom margin with some added margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. CHINEA, ROME, EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE, LE LORRAIN, 1748, FESTA DELLA CHINEA, BAROQUE, CHARLES III, ALLEGORY, PRINT | PCO-B8-46 BACKGROUND INFORMATION For: ‘Festa della Chinea’, 1748, Rome. Michelangelo Specchi as architect; Francesco Scardovelli, pyrotechnician of Castel Sant’Angelo. The Festa della Chinea, which roughly translates as ‘Festival of the Wandering Nag’, was a historic festival held in Rome bi-annually until the late eighteenth century (1788), in which the viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples was required to pay his homage to the pope. This entailed, among other things, the offering of a white horse (‘nag’) that formed part of a procession through the streets of Rome. Reference: Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Inv. A 112380. Biography engraver: Louis Joseph Le Lorrain (1715-1759) was a French painter and engraver. Active in Paris and Rome, he was known for historical and architectural subjects, including ephemeral festival designs.
