1835/37 Giuseppe Valadier
(1762/1839) for Gregory XVI Cappellari (1831/46)
It is the
seat of the ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA GRAFICA (National Institute for Graphics)
There are
exhibition halls, a reading room and offices
The Cabinet
of Prints is located in the adjacent Palazzo
Poli also home of the institution
About 23,500
drawings and 110,000 prints from the sixteenth to the nineteenth
century and 2,000 copper plates including some engraved by G.B. Piranesi
and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
In
addition, drawings and prints from the National Chalcography: about 1,600
drawings e 28,000 prints
Also on
display are tools for cutting, machinery and ancient presses
The
printing activity is still active, albeit not continuously
The
institute also has a photographic documentary archive and a historical
photo library with works by the most important artists in the history of
nineteenth-century Italian photography
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