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Bellori, Giovanni Pietro ; Michel Ange de La Chausse (Michaele Angelo Causseo); Pietro Santi Bartoli, engraver., draughtsman; Francesco Bartoli, engraver;. Antonio de' Rossi, printer; Antonio Pazzi, engraver; Giuseppe Vasi, engraver; Filippo Morghen, engr - Picturĉ Antiquĉ Cryptarum Romanarum, Et Sepulcri Nasonum Delineatae, & Expressae Ad Archetypa a Petro Sancti Bartholi Et Francisco Ejus Filio Descriptae Vero, & Illustratae a Johanne Petro Bellorio Et Michaele Angelo Causseo Opus Latine Redditum, Proditque Absolutius & Exactius Cum Appendice Nunquam Edita. Second Edition

Title: Picturĉ Antiquĉ Cryptarum Romanarum, Et Sepulcri Nasonum Delineatae, & Expressae Ad Archetypa a Petro Sancti Bartholi Et Francisco Ejus Filio Descriptae Vero, & Illustratae a Johanne Petro Bellorio Et Michaele Angelo Causseo Opus Latine Redditum, Proditque Absolutius & Exactius Cum Appendice Nunquam Edita. Second Edition
Description: Romae: Anno Jubilaei MDCCL. Ex Typographia Antonii De Rubeis Prĉsidum Permissu. Folio. 37 x 49 cm. New half calf and marbled boards by the artisan bookbinder, Sasha Mosalov. Part of original spine preserved (35cm).Waterstain on the corners of some plates and text pages, but most are not not affected..Collation: XII, 1-66pp, Plates I-XXXV, 67-82pp, Plates I-XVI, 83-110pp, Plates I-XXIV, unnumbered doube page plate.. OCLC Number:5005579.. Notes: Four groups of engraved plates (24, 35, 16, 19 [i.e. 21]), each group followed by descriptive text. Translated from the Italian edition, originally published at Rome, 1706. With bookplate of Townshend. Includes index. Description: xii, 110 pages illustrations, plates 51 cm.. This work was first published in 1738. It is a Latin translation of the book published in 1706 in Italian, entitled Le Pitture Antiche Delle Grotte Di Roma, E Del Sepolcro De' Nasoni Disegnate, & intagliate .. Da Pietro Santi Bartoli, E Francesco Bartoli .. Descritte .. Da Gio: Pietro Bellori, E Michelangelo Causei Dela Chausse. (An earlier Latin account of the tomb of the Nasonii by P. Santi Bartoli had been published in 1699, and an Italian version in 1680.) The 1706 Italian version of the book had only three groups of plates with explanatory texts. This Latin edition is published 'cum Appendice nunquam edita', i.e. with a fourth group of plates and explanatory text.. The painted walls and vaults of the tomb of the Nasonii on the Via Flaminia had first been unearthed in 1674.. The plates of both the Latin and the Italian editions show not only paintings of this and other tombs but also stucchi, mosaics, lamps, vases and other objects. .

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