Author: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro; Pietro Santi Bartoli , artist; Claude-François Menestrier, ( 631-1705); Lucas Holstenius, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi; John Michael Wright; Domenico Antonio Ercole, printer, publisher; Giovanni Battista Lenardi, draughtsman; Philip
Title: Le Pitture Antiche Del Sepolcro de Nasonii Nella Via Flaminia Disegnate, Ed Intagliate Alla Similitudine Degli Antichi Originali Da Pietro Santi Bartoli Descritte, & Illustrate Da Gio: Pietro Bellori. [Bound with] Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae Statua... Bound with] Ragguaglio Della Solenne Comparsa, Fatta in Roma Gli Otto Di Gennaio M Dc LXXXVII, Dall'Illustrissimo, Et Eccellentissimo Signor Conte de Castelmaine Ambasciadore Straordinario Della Sagra Real Maestà Di Giacomo Secondo Rè D'Inghilterra, Scozia, Francia, Et Ibernia, Difensore Della Fede Alla Santa Sede Apostolica, in Andare Publicamente All'Udienza Della Santità Di Nostro Signore Papa Innocenzo Undecimo. Dedicato All'Altezza Serenissima Della Duchessa Di Modena Da Giovanni Michele Writ Maggiordomo Del Medesimo Signor Ambasciadore... . First Editions
Description: Rome: Giovanni Battista Bussotti, 1680; Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1688; Nella Stamperia di Domenico Antonio Ercole. Con licenza de' Superiori. (1687.). 3 vols in 1, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, leather lettering labels, joints cracked, books plates to front paste-down and front endpaper, folio..22 x 33cm...Wormholes in lower right cortner of first 50 pages, mostly small.. Santi Bartoli, Pietro and Giovanni Pietro Bellori.. Le Pitture Antiche del Sepolcro de Nasonii Nella via Flaminia-. 1 double page and 34 engraved plates, damp-staining to initial leave of text, affecting the engraved plate at corner, Giovanni Battista Bussotti, Rome, 1680...........Menestrier (Claude François) Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua.. 24 engravings, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1688; Writ (Giovanni Michele) Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa.. dall'illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo Signor Conte di Castelmaine.. engraved frontispiece, one large folding and 14 engraved plates... *** The third work contains an account of the Earl of Castlemaine's embassy to Rome in 1687, on behalf of James II, who wished to return England to the Catholic Church..Text and plates describe wall-paintings and vaults of the ancient tomb of the Nasonii on the Via Flaminia, which had been unearthed in 1674. The work was reprinted throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and served as a pattern book among such Neoclassical designers as Adam, Wyatt, Soane, Percier and Fontaine, Hope and Nash.. The plates show: 1. excavation and the façade of the tomb; 2. the plan of the tomb; 3, 4. overall views of two walls of paintings; 5-20. details of the paintings; 21. overall view of a painted ceiling; 22-35. details of the ceiling paintings. The paintings show Greek mythological subjects, hunts and the seasons. The book also carries decorated initials.... Bartoli's drawings of the murals are preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. They were used by G. Turnbull for some plates in A curious collection of ancient paintings (1741).... OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 702324701; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1085650529; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 800892296..Provenance: Thomas Longueville, Skene Library, Ampleforth Abbey Library. .

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