Author: MANNI (Domenico Maria)
Title: Azioni Gloriose degli uomini illustri Fiorentini espresse co' loro ritratti nelle volte dell' Imperial Galleria di Toscana. [52 plates from drawings by Giuseppe Menabuoni, with descriptive notices by Domenico Maria Manni, preface by Ignazio Orsini.]
Description: Florence: [1745.] First and only edition, large landscape folio (565 x 430 mm), engraved title page (a little dust soiled), engraved portrait of Conte Ferdinando del Maestro, 52 engraved plates of ceilings each with corresponding leaf of letterpress text with historiated initial, the plates by P. A. Pazzi, J. Papini and F. Zucchi, in general the plates and text a clean and bright, cont. quarter calf, marbled boards, rubbed, joints cracked, spine worn. The engravings represent frescoes from some of the rooms in the Galleria degli Uffizi. After the disastrous fire of 1762 in which large parts of the roof collapsed, the illustration from this book were used as a reference guide to the ceiling frescoes when restored by Giuseppe del Moro, Giuliano Traballesi and Giuseppe Terreni. Berlin Catalogue, 4103; Brunet I, 595.

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE ITALY UFFIZI GALLERY