401 Francesco Zucchi (Italian, 1692-1764). Prospetto della Piazza verso il
mare in Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, Forestiere illuminate intorno le cose
piu rare... della citta di Venezia (Venice, 1740). Los Angeles, Getty
Research Institute, Special Collections, inv. 85-B4274.
40J Colophon to Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, Componimenti poetici per
1'ingresso solenne alia dignita di proccuratore di S. Marco per merito di
Sua Eccellenza il Signor Lodovico Manin (Venice, 1764). Engraving. Los
Angeles, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, inv. 85-B20471.Although he died in Egypt, his body was supposedly transferred from
Alexandria to Venice in the early ninth century, and it was in Saint
Mark's honor that the eponymous Venetian basilica was built (Cham
bers 1970, 16-17; Zorzi 1983, 243). For the allegorical representation of
Venice see, for example, Muir 1981, 229-30, 239, 295.
6. For more information on the factory see Hess 1990A, 141-56.- Kaolin—a silicate of aluminum that, when combined with feldspathic
rock, fuses into a glassy matrix when fired in a kiln—was found in the
Vicenza hills near Venice. The director of the Sevres manufactory,
Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), first classified the Cozzi product as a
"hybrid soft-paste porcelain" because it was fired at lower temperatures
than German or French hard-paste wares but, nevertheless, contained
kaolin. The Cozzi factory also produced maiolica (see Gobbi and Alpi
2001 , 28-47). - A report documenting these figures was sent by arts inspector Gabrielle
Marcello to the board of trade (cited in Molfino 1976, 26-27; Stazzi
1982 , 47, with an erroneous date). - See, for example, Morazzoni i960, 1: figs. 46b, 51, 58, 61a, 68a-c, 69a-
b, 70-71, 72a-b, 73a-c, 74-75, pi. 6. - Easily, more than one painter could have contributed to the decoration
of these works. In a painters' guidebook Roger de Piles (1772, 95) explains
that for porcelain painting, "The work ... is distributed among a large
number of craftsmen in the same workshop: one would be responsible
for painting the colored circle around the rim of a piece of porcelain, an
other would draw the flowers that yet a third would paint; some would
paint nothing but water and mountains, others nothing but birds and
other animals, and yet others would execute human figures."
11. From the model book for artists Raccolta di paesetti intagliati in rame,
published by Albrizzi in 1750.- The Zucchi print is entitled Prospetto della piazza verso il mare in
G. B. Albrizzi's edition Forestiere illuminato intorno le cose piu rare,
e curiose, antiche, e moderne della citta di Venezia (Venice, 1740) (fig.
401); it ostensibly copies a print designed and executed by Luca Carl-
evarijs (1663-1730)—Veduta della Piazza S. Marco verso l'horologio—
published in G. B. Finazzi's edition Le fabriche e vedute di Venetia
(Venice, 1603). - Found, for example, at the end of Componimenti poetici per 1'ingresso
solenne alia dignita di proccuratore di S. Marco per merito di Sua Ecce-
lenza il Signore Locovico Manin (Venice, 1764) (fig. 407). - Pope Alexander clearly defines this relationship when he says, while
giving Doge Ziani the ritualistic ring, "Take this [ring] ... so that pos
terity knows... that the sea was placed under your dominion, as a wife
is to a husband" (Francesco Sansovino, Venetia [Venice, 1663], 501; as
cited in Muir 1981, 124, n. 53). It is not surprising, therefore, that the
term for "the sea" in Venetian dialect changes the masculine and Latin-
derived il mare into the feminine la mar.
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