Carlo Gregori after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia

Saffo (Sappho)

Copper-line engraving. 1741. 255mm by 180mm (platemark) 420mm by 270mm (sheet). Plate number top right corner of image.

Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence, active under the patronage of the House of Medici.

Illustration of an Ancient Roman marble bust from 'Musei Capitolini', a series of engravings showing the sculpture of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

Sappho was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. Item #3814

Price: $180.00