Giovanni Maggi

Gandellini described the Roman painter Maggi as, "a Roman painter of landscapes, he was a good draughtsman, and had a good grasp of perspective, and he etched many views which were well composed, and with good taste, and he also portrayed many church facades in Rome. "He even executed a huge perspectival view of Rome, drawn flat, with all the streets, squares, churchces, palaces and private houses, but this poor man was not able to complete this work because he ran out of money, nor could he reduce it to the level of perfection he would have liked, was he able to, and it was later engraved in wood by Paul Maupin (active in Abbeville in the 17th century). "He engraved with con Domenico Barriera (born in Marseille between 1610 and 1620, died Rome in 1678) various fountains of Rome, Tivoli and Frascati. He drew also the nine churches which one visits for Indulgence, with the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, and their Privileged Altars, but others were engraved with the burin. "Maggi was a happy man, and humorous, whilst he was working he would recount the most bizarre stories of the world, sometimes ridiculous, and he was also keen on burlesque poetry. He died in Rome aged over fifty, and worked in the year 1609"

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