STORIA DELLA SCULTURA DAL SUO RISORGIMENTO IN ITALIA FINO AL SECOLO DI CANOVA Del Conte Leopoldo Cicognara per servire di continuazione all'opere di Winckelmann e di d'Agincourt. Edizione Secunda riveduta e ampliata dall' autore. Tavole 185.

CICOGNARA, LEOPOLDO, CONTE.

Verlag: Per i Fratelli Giachetti., Prato, 1823

Beschreibung

Folio. 18.5 x 13 inches. [2] pp. + 185 leaves of plates. Atlas volume of plates only. Bound in half vellum, with ink spine title (Cicognara Scultura Tavole 185) over mottled boards. Rough cut edges. Extremities worn and spine darkened with some loss at head and tail. Foxing, largely confined to plate margins, but otherwise a very good copy. Small plain armourial bookplate. Illustrated by 185 leaves of etched plates, in three numerical sequences (XLIII + XC + LII). The atlas volume from a seven volume survey of sculpture in Italy from the Renaissance to the work of Antonio Canova (1757-1822), greatly enlarged from the first three volume edition of 1813. The title page states that is a continuation of work by J. B. L. G. Seroux d'Agincourt (1730-1814) and Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68). Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1824) was an artist, collector and historian, who had a brief political career in Napoleon's Cisalpine Republic at Turin from 1797-1802. Afterwards he settled in Venice, to devote himself to art, his large library being purchased by the Vatican in 1824. ART REFERENCE ITALY ARTS- SCULPTURE HISTORY ITALIAN ILLUSTRATED ART REFERENCE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28067

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Titel: STORIA DELLA SCULTURA DAL SUO RISORGIMENTO ...

Verlag: Per i Fratelli Giachetti., Prato

Erscheinungsdatum: 1823