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II Mondo novo musicale di Pier Leone Ghezzi. .(Book Review)
II Mondo novo musicale di Pier Leone Ghezzi. By Giancarlo Rostirolla. (Arte armonica, Serie IV. Iconografia e cataloghi, 2.) Milano: Skira; Roma: Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 2001. [495 p. ISBN 8-881-18427-3. [euro]92.96.] Illustrations, bibliography, indexes.
Pier Leone Ghezzi was, mutatis mutandis, Rome's Al Hirschfeld in the first half of the eighteenth century. Most of the rich and famous who passed through Rome between 1700 and 1750 (and who didn't?) were captured on paper with a minimum number of strokes of pen, pencil, or chalk by this unique master, known in his time as it caveliere delle caricature.
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