The Fountains of Rome: Selected Plates from the Classic "Le Fontane Di Roma," 1660-1675 (Dover Books on Fine Art) - Softcover

Falda, Giovanni Battista; Venturini, Giovanni Francesco

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ISBN 10: 0486493857 ISBN 13: 9780486493855

Verlag: DOVER PUBN INC, 2014

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Dating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full-page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture, details of topography and garden design, and portraits of seventeenth-century Romans at leisure. Featured sites include St. Peter's Basilica within the Vatican, Piazza Barberini and the Piazza Farnese in the city's historical center, and the Villa Ludovisi, a peaceful suburban retreat long since razed to make way for the fashionable Via Veneto.
This compilation is the only edition in print of these outstanding engravings. Architectural historians, aficionados of the Eternal City, and lovers of art and architecture will prize this historically valuable collection, which offers rare glimpses of many now-vanished and much-altered Roman locales.

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Italian architect, engraver, and artist, Giovanni Battista Falda (1640-78) is famed for his engravings of both contemporary and antique Roman buildings. His works were particularly relished by souvenir-seeking visitors of the Grand Tour era.

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Dating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full-page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture, details of topography and garden design, and portraits of seventeenth-century Romans at leisure. Featured sites include St. Peter's Basilica within the Vatican, Piazza Barberini and the Piazza Farnese in the city's historical center, and the Villa Ludovisi, a peaceful suburban retreat long since razed to make way for the fashionable Via Veneto.
This compilation is the only edition in print of these outstanding engravings. Architectural historians, aficionados of the Eternal City, and lovers of art and architecture will prize this historically valuable collection, which offers rare glimpses of many now-vanished and much-altered Roman locales.
Dover (2014) republication of the edition originally published by Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, c. 1691.
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DOVER PUBN INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0486493857
• ISBN 13: 9780486493855
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italien