Classical image. Genie d'Apollon (Apollo's Genie) Winged cupid.  E-mail this product to a friend

Putti and cherubs featured frequently in ancient decorative arts. This is one of a pair of charming small images - with "Classical image. Winged Cherubs".
Reproduction from a hand-coloured copperplate engraving. From a series engraving by Pierre-Jacques Gaultier / Filippo Morghen (1730-1807) / Giovanni Battista Nolli / Carlo Nolli / Nicolaus Oraly / Francesco Cepparuli / Aloja after a drawing by Francesco Lavega / Nicolaus Vanni architect Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-73)/ Camillo Paderni, for the most important 18th century archaeological work, following the excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. “Le Antichita di Ercolano Esposto” (Herculaneum Antiquities Exposed), published in Naples between 1757 and 1792 (under the patronage of King Charles II), depicts the archaelogical discoveries over a period of forty years from Herculaneum, a Roman municipium buried when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.