Piazza Colonna during Carnival
I-Rc Ms2478.05 detail

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Piazza Colonna during Carnival, to scale
60 × 80 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
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Piazza Colonna during Carnival

Lasciatemi o pensieri

Catalogue ID1.11
Artist Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660); Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661)
Object type drawing · initial: Vignette - non allusive
Date1652
PlaceRome
Collection Biblioteca Casanatense (Rome)
Inv. no.I-Rc Ms2478.05
Tech. / supportbrown ink, graphite, paper, pen
Measures60 × 80 mm
Subject25I142 — avenue, boulevard, promenade, esplanade
43A122 — Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration)
43C2121 — horse-racing
43C2131 — wagon racing (with horses)

The run of the Berbers on the via Lata, now Corso, as seen from Piazza Colonna during the Carnival. Domenico Jacovacci had been caporione of the Rione Colonna from 1617 (when he was 13 years old) to 1621. He resided thereby with his uncles until 1634. Other representations of the square from the period are a fresco in the Biblioteca Vaticana, a painting by Johannes Lingelbach (1622-1674) in Vienna (inv. 9149), another by Jan Miel (1599-1664) in Wadsworth (inv. 1938.603), a drawing by Felice della Greca (1625-1677) in the Biblioteca Vaticana (I-Rbav Arch.Chigi 25058). In the vignette to the right, cornering with via Lata, is the palace of the family del Bufalo; on the left of the column are the small houses composing the Isola Colonna, destroyed in 1657/58 in the requalification plan set in motion by pope Alexander VII. Domenico Jacovacci was then Maestro di Strade with Giacinto del Bufalo.

Cantata
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Composer
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini (1614-1691)
Manuscript
Casanatense cantata album — I-Rc Ms2478
CLORI
https://cantataitaliana.it/scheda/774

Bianco, Anna. Images for the Music: Drawings and secular cantatas. Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University, 2025

Bianco, Anna. “The Master of the Roman Songbook.” Going South: Artistic Exchange between the Netherlands and Italy in the 17th Century, vol. IX, RKD & NIKI, 2023. (nr. 5)

Biblioteca Casanatense — nowadays current