Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti disegnati

FERRERIO, Pietro

Published by [Roma; Rome], Si vendeno per Gio. Iacomo Rossi all'insegna di Parigi alla Pace, 1683

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THE GREAT PALAZZOS OF ROME. FERRERIO, Pietro. Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti disegnati… Libro primo. [Rome], Si vendeno per Gio. Iacomo Rossi all'insegna di Parigi alla Pace, [1683?]. Oblong folio (47,5x37cm). 44 numbered copperplate engravings including the engraved title-page. Only the first book ( Libro primo ). The title is preceded by the editor s dedication to Cardinal Antonio Barberini. Private library stamp on t-p. Contemp. full vellum. A very good copy. Only the first book. The second book s title, which includes 61 plates, is Nuovi disegni dell'architetture e piante de' palazzi di Roma de' più celebri architetti, disegnate et intagliate da Gio. Battista Falda . The first edition of the work is usually assumed to have been issued around 1655, at which time it consisted of the first book only, with an earlier state of the title-plate before the addition of 'Libro Primo', and the plates in an unnumbered state. The most important Roman buildings are illustrated by Ferrario both in elevation and in plan, starting from the works of Bramante, Raphael, Peruzzi and Michelangelo and then moving on to Vignola, Ammannati, Ligorio, Della Porta, finally dedicating a modest space for architects of the 16th-century, such as Bernini, Borromini or Domenico Fontana: this is an evident sign of how much the orientation of the culture and taste of the mature seventeenth century tended towards a recovery and a preference towards sixteenth-century classicism or late Counter-Reformation mannerism. Fowler, pp. 103-104; Brunet, II, 1235; Olschki, Choix, 16931. Seller Inventory # ABE-1651395108408

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Title: Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti ...

Publisher: [Roma; Rome], Si vendeno per Gio. Iacomo Rossi all'insegna di Parigi alla Pace

Publication Date: 1683

Binding: Rilegato

Condition: quasi ottimo