Romanae magnitudinis monumenta quae urbem illam Orbis dominam velut redivivam exhibent posteritati; unito a Vestigi delle antichità di Roma Tivoli Pozzuolo e altri luoghi come si ritrovavano nel secolo M.D.
Author: [Pietro Santi Bartoli; Marco Sadeler]
Code: LIARGR0190593
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Author: [Pietro Santi Bartoli; Marco Sadeler]
Publisher: Typis Dominici de Rubeis; Gio. Iacomo de Rossi
Place of printing: Rome
Year of publication: 1699; [1660]
Product Condition:
Oblong folio. Contemporary full parchment binding with gilt title and decorations on a tag on the spine, in good condition: traces of dust and soiling especially on the spine, traces of dust on the boards, a brown stain on the front board, peeling at the top outer corner of the front board. Old ownership signature on the first blank leaf. Traces of dust on the edges. Leaves in good condition with scattered foxing and irregularly distributed brown stains; small, pale damp stain at the top outer corner from plate 28 of the second work to the end of the volume. In the first work, there is a pagination error on plates 9 through 20 (10, 9, 12, 11, 14, 13, etc.). Text in Latin and Italian.
Pages: 138 plates number; (1 table no.), 50 table numbers.
Format: In folio
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 28
Width: 42
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Our volume presents two important works published by the De Rossi family printing house, the largest workshop for the production and trade of artistic prints in Rome in the 17th century, specializing in descriptions of ancient and modern Rome and its monuments, with international distribution. “Romanae magnitudinis monumenta quae urbem illam Orbis dominam velut redivivam exhibent posteritati veterum recentorumque auctoritate probata quibus suffragantur numismata, et Musea principum praesertim fragmenta marmorea Farnesiana quae urbis antiquae ichnographiam continent restituta et aucta” is the first of the two works: printed on the 1699 Cura, Sumptibus ac typis Dominici de Rubeis, Io: Iacobi haeredis ad Templum S.Mariae de Pace, presents 138 plates engraved in copper: the frontispiece, an elaborate architectural composition in which the dedication to Cardinal Hieronymo Casanate is inscribed, 18 plates dedicated to Roman history and its military power, 118 plates of reconstruction of the ancient monuments of the eternal city. From Cicognara's description, 3857: "Under each print you can read the declarations engraved in copper; there are 138 plates collected in this Calcografia and reproduced with this frontispiece, which had been previously used in similar works, as can be seen from the retouched plates, and newly numbered to reduce them to this order." The Treccani Encyclopedia attributes this masterpiece to Pier Santi Bartoli, who is listed as the engraver at the bottom of the dedication plate of the work: “Bartoli's reputation as an architect, or rather as an architectural scholar, is linked to the reconstruction he proposed, in the act of engraving them on copper, of many of the most notable monuments of the City. Halfway between the sixteenth-century Speculum of A. Lafréry and the eighteenth-century Antichità of GB Piranesi, Bartoli takes on the theme of the "magnificence of Rome" for his own account, with a preparation and a frame of mind closer to the distinctly archaeological one of the former than to the essentially lyrical and in a certain sense dramatic one of the latter, and explores it with a tenacity and constancy that lasts a lifetime, extending it to paintings, sepulchral lamps, coins, and ancient gems.” In the 118 plates, the monuments of ancient Rome are reproduced in their entirety in engravings with clean, sharp lines. The following work, Vestiges of the Antiquities of Rome, Tivoli, Pozzuolo, and Other Places as Found in the 16th Century, engraved by Gio. Iacomo de Rossi at the Pace, on the corner, under the sign of Paris, undated (but 1660), has a completely different character. Here, the focus is on 16th-century Rome, with views in which the ruins of ancient monuments serve as a backdrop to the life of the small figures that animate the scenes. The engraver is Marco Sadeler, a member of the greatest and probably best-known dynasties of Flemish engravers who worked in Europe in the 16th, 17th, and following centuries, both as artists and publishers. Marco reproduces an earlier work by Aegidius Sadeler, court engraver to Rudolf II, published in Prague in 1606, re-engraving the copperplates. This work itself was partly a smaller-format reproduction of the work “The vestiges of antiquity in Rome collected and portrayed in perspective with every diligence by Stefano du Perac from Paris”, published in Rome by Lorenzo della Vaccheria in 1575. The same 38 views of Rome, preceded by a beautiful illustrated frontispiece and a dedication to Matteo Wachker from Wachkenfeld, Aulic Councillor, are reproduced in a richer chiaroscuro style and to them are added 2 views of Tivoli, 7 of Baia and Pozzuoli, 1 of Barland in Zealand and 1 of Vissehrad Castle in Bohemia.
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Author: [Pietro Santi Bartoli; Marco Sadeler]
Code: LIARGR0190593
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