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Violani, Carlo - Un Bestiario Barocco: Quadri di piume del Seicento milanese

Title: Un Bestiario Barocco: Quadri di piume del Seicento milanese
Description: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 1988 126, col + b/w photos. A4. PB. As new.. Text Italian. A catalogue of an exhibiton at the Museo civico di storia naturale, Milan, of the Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio, a collection of 156 pictures made almost entirely from bird feathers augmented with pieces of bird skin, feet, and beaks. They were created between 1616 and 1618 by Dionisio Minaggio, the chief gardener of the Duchy of Milan..

Keywords: Art of Natural History; Baroque Art; Birds; Ornithology; Italy; Western Europe

Price: GBP 25.00 = appr. US$ 35.70 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S59438

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