Bartolomeo Pinelli
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Bartolomeo Pinelli (Rome, November 20 1771 – Rome, April 1 1835) was an Italian illustrator and engraver.
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Life
An extremely prolific artist, he illustrated in his figures the costumes of the Italian peoples, the great epic poems and numerous other subjects, including popular customs. In general, the most recurring subject is Rome, its inhabitants, its monuments, the ancient city as well as the modern one. Son of a religious statues modeller he was educated first in Bologna and then in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He lived in a poor quarter of Rome.
In the first years of independent work he painted figures in acquerelle under the same prism of the painter Franz Kaiserman. From 1807, He produced an album of 36 watercolors with Scene e Costumi di Roma e del Lazio. From 1809 we have his first series of carvings under the title Raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi incisi all’acquaforte. In 1816 he accomplishes the illustrations for the work “Storia Romana’ (ital: the Roman Story) and in 1821 those for the work “La storia Greca” (Ital: the Greek story). He also printed a series of prints on La storia del brigante decapitito, about a brigand who, while he sleeps, is decapitated by his wife in revenge for having murdered her child. It also illustrates the attention Pinelli lavished on popular tales.
Between 1822 and 1823 he accomplishes the fifty-two tables for the work “Il Meo Patacca.” He died poor the 1st of April in 1835.
La morte der zor Meo (The death of mister (Bartolo)Meo)
A few days later Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli wrote the following sonetto:
Sì, quello che portava li capelli
giù p'er grugno e la mosca ar barbozzale, (1)
er pittor de Trestevere, Pinelli, (2)
è crepato pe causa d'un bucale (3).
V'abbasti questo, ch'er dottor Mucchielli, (4)
vista ch'ebbe la merda in ner pitale,
cominciò a storce (5) e a masticalla male, (6)
eppoi disse: "Intimate li Fratelli. (7)"
Che aveva da lassà? Pe fà bisboccia (8)
ner Gabbionaccio (9) de padron Torrone, (10)
è morto co tre pavoli in zaccoccia. (11)
E l'anima? Era già scommunicato, (12)
ha chiuso l'occhi senza confessione...(13)
Cosa ne dite? Se (14) sarà sarvato?
April 9 1835
Works
Oreste Raggi, in his libretto written in 1835, the same year that the artist died, cites many other designs and watercolors as well, around forty collections of stamps, published in Rome under ten different editors.
Among those:
- Collection of Rome costumes (1809)-50 bronze carvings
- Another collection of Rome costumes-50 bronze carvings
- The carnival of Rome-one bronze carving
- The Roman Story-101 stamps
- The story of the Emperors, starting from Ottavio-101 stamps
- Dante, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise-145 stamps
- Costumes of the Roman countryside (1823)-50 bronze carvings
- Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered -72 stamps
- L’Ariosto-Orlando Furioso-100 stamps
- Eneide of Virgil –50 bronze carvings
- Collection of ancient costumes
- The Greek History-100 bronze carvings
- Costumes of the Kingdom of Napoli –50 bronze carvings (1828)
- Meo Patacca –50 bronze carvings
- Swiss Costumes (1813)-16 bronze carvings
Bibliography (in Italian)
- Raggi Oreste: Cenni intorno alla vita e alle opere di Bartolomeo Pinelli, Roma, 1835, Tipografia Salvucci
- Fagiolo Maurizio, Marini Maurizio (a cura di), Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835) e il suo tempo, Roma 1983.
