LUIGI BUSATTI (1763-1821)

AN ALBUM OF 88 PAGES OF THE ARTIST'S STUDIES AND SET DESIGNS, INCLUDING 27 VIEWS OF ROMAN AND LAZIAN VILLAS
Inscribed to inside cover Pozzoli [?] sca...[?] / V [?] G.B. / Giuseppe Mors[?]elli [?] Maria [?] / Luigi Busatti 
Variously in pencil, pen, black ink and grey wash, with one sheet partly coloured in pinkish watercolour, contained within an album of decorated boards, quarter calf, previously with gold tooling titled on the spine DISEGNI/DI/VEDUTE
29.5 x 20 cm
 
 
 
 
Busatti was a painter and scenic designer from Bologna. He trained under Vincenzo Martinelli, showing an early aptitude for landscape draughtsmanship. His commissions included frescoes in the Palazzo Hercolani in Bologna, and in the Certosa, where he decorated the monument to Vincenzo Martinelli, collaborating with the painter Pietro Fancelli. Busatti also designed theatrical scenery for the Bolognese Teatro Zagnoni, Teatro Comunale, Nuovo Teatro del Corso, and the Teatro Contavalli, and in Florence for the Teatro della Pergola. Later on in his career, he taught landscape art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.