Admiranda Romanarum antiquitatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia : anaglyphico opere elaborata ex marmoreis exemplaribus quae Romae adhuc extant in Capitolio, aedibus hortisque virorum principum ad antiquam elegantiam / a Petro Sancti Bartolo delineata incisa, in quibus plurima ac praeclarissima ad Romanam historiam ac veteres mores dignoscendos ob oculos ponuntur ; notis Io. Petri Bellorii illustrata. (Original 1693 edition).
[Rome] : Haec omnium, quae extant nobilissima Romanae magnitudinis monumenta ... sumptibus ac typis edita à Joanne Jacobo de Rubeis, restituit auxit Dominicus de Rubeis chalcographus, anno 1693 Romae. Oblong folio. 50 x 39cm. 83 numbered plates...New half parchment and marbled board binding by the artisan binder, Sasha Mosalov.....Title and dedication included in numbering of plates. Single letterpress leaf bears bibliographical information by Domenco de' Rossi. Dedicatory leaf incorporates port. of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, to whom first ed. was dedicated, engraved by V. Guigou. Plate 30 signed with initials by Robert van Audenaerd, who was responsible for other plates as well. Thirty-one of the plates by Bartoli are copies in reverse of plates from François Perrier's Icones et segmenta (Rome, 1645). Perrier's monogram appears on plates 53 & 54. See Indice....
First ed. appeared probably in 1666 and comprised 81 plates. Plates 60 & 61 of the present ed., devoted to the Roman fresco known as the Aldobrandini Wedding, were etched by Bartoli in 1677 and added to the work. In 1690 a group of 31 plates was transferred to another de Rossi publication (Veteres arcus Augustorum), and replaced with 31 others in part by Bartoli. ....References; OCLC Number
874380230;
RIBA, Early printed, 1 (1994), no. 206, p.116-7 [describes mainly a pre-1693 edition].
Summary Note:
The sculptures shown are accompanied by a short explanatory caption, and statement of location. Several are from the collections of the Barberini, Medici, Borghese, Mattei, Giustiniani and Pamphili; a smaller number from the collections of the Mazarins, Montalto, Della Valle, the Queen of Sweden, Farnese, Massimi, Sacchetti and Vitelleschi; one is from the collection of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, to whom the work is dedicated. Others are from the Vatican and Capitoline collections, from churches and from the Forum of Nerva. Only one is shown from outside Rome, from the royal collection in Madrid. Item #51-5269
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