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Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti

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WA-00078617

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WikidataQ5041447

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Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearWikidata· 92%
Death yearWikidata· 92%
Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
LocationWikidata· 80%

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/chndm_1938-88-2993
Tier 1 · Institutional90%
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Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at Bologna and Genoa about 1690. He engraved a series of architectural subjects, and decorations for the theatre, after Francesco Galli Bibiena, and others after Marcantonio Chiarini.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (7)

Interior of a prison in which sits a woman (possibly a theatre set)

1680 · Etching

sheet: 6 1/16 x 8 7/8 in. (15.4 x 22.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architectural detail of an elaborate cornice, seen from below

1680 · Etching

Sheet (Trimmed): 7 3/16 × 9 13/16 in. (18.3 × 25 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vertical Oval Vignette of a Mountainous Landscape with Two Shepherds in the Foreground.

1680 · Pen and brown ink. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink

sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 3/16 in. (23.8 x 18.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View with a man in a turban and a lion standing at right, tents and classical architecture in the background

1680 · Etching

Sheet (Trimmed): 4 1/16 × 6 7/16 in. (10.3 × 16.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Siege of a Fortress

1677 · Pen and brown ink

9 5/8 x 8 1/16 in. (24.5 x 20.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vertical Oval Vignette of A Palace Interior with Two Figures Admiring Decoration; a Craggy Mountain Seen Through a Window in The Far Distance.

1660 · Pen and brown and black ink. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink. Foliage and hatching additions added around inside of frame in pen and brown ink

sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (24.1 x 18.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architectural Perspective for a Stage Set with a Bridge, Statues and a Fountain in the Background and Human Figures in the Foreground

1660 · Pen and brown ink over traces of leadpoint

10 -1/8 x 12 -11/16 in. (25.7 x 32.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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7 published of 21 catalogued · 7 with image

The Met
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+ 1 more source · 14 catalogued, not yet published

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