Il Vignola illustrato Proposto da Giambattista Spampani, e Carlo Antonini studenti d’architettura. Dedicato alla Santità di Clemente XIV. Felicemente regnante

In 1770, Carlo Antonini and Giambattista Spampani, two students of architecture at the Academy of San Luca in Rome, wrote a study of the life and work of the remarkable 16th-century architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507–1573). The book has an appendix with 55 illustrations of Barozzi’s work or details of it. It also includes three copper engravings with the signature ‘Franciscus Smuglewicz Polonus’. One of Lithuania’s most distinguished artists, Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807) studied at the Academy of San Luca in Rome from 1765. He also worked with the contributors to this book on other projects in Italy, and Spampani later travelled to Vilnius where he remodelled and decorated St Casimir’s Chapel in Vilnius Cathedral and decorated the White Hall in Vilnius University.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album ARS LIBRI (2022). Compiler Algimantas Muzikevičius, text authors Algimantas Muzikevičius, Rolandas Gustaitis
Expositions: "Under Italian Skies. Lithuanian artists’ works from the 18th– first half of the 20th centuries", 1 December 2017 – 19 August 2018, Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius). Curators: Dalia Tarandaitė (project leader), Rūta Janonienė, Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

In 1770, Carlo Antonini and Giambattista Spampani, two students of architecture at the Academy of San Luca in Rome, wrote a study of the life and work of the remarkable 16th-century architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507–1573). The book has an appendix with 55 illustrations of Barozzi’s work or details of it. It also includes three copper engravings with the signature ‘Franciscus Smuglewicz Polonus’. One of Lithuania’s most distinguished artists, Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807) studied at the Academy of San Luca in Rome from 1765. He also worked with the contributors to this book on other projects in Italy, and Spampani later travelled to Vilnius where he remodelled and decorated St Casimir’s Chapel in Vilnius Cathedral and decorated the White Hall in Vilnius University.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album ARS LIBRI (2022). Compiler Algimantas Muzikevičius, text authors Algimantas Muzikevičius, Rolandas Gustaitis
Expositions: "Under Italian Skies. Lithuanian artists’ works from the 18th– first half of the 20th centuries", 1 December 2017 – 19 August 2018, Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji St. 4, Vilnius). Curators: Dalia Tarandaitė (project leader), Rūta Janonienė, Giedrė Jankevičiūtė