Alcune vedute et prospettive di luoghi dishabitati di Roma
Mercati, Giovanni Battista
1591-1645
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Roma
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1629
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[26] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings); 21 x 31 cm (obl. fol.)
The series is not a scientific depiction, but does capture some views at a time when kilns and sites were still actively dismantling the remains of ancient edifices. The prints may have influenced Vasi and later Piranesi.
Gio. Battista Mercati D.D.D.
Dedication: "Al Ser.mo Gran Duca di toscana Ferdinando IIĀ°. suo Sig.re Clementiss.mo" with coat of arms.
Title on the first leaf with Ferdinando de' Medici coat of arms and dedication; each leaf has two numbered plates.
Plates n.19 and 40 are dated from 1629.
Most of the plates are signed by Giovanni Battista Mercati.
Ruins in art
Early works to 1800
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Early works to 1800
Rossetti, S. Rome, a bibliography from the invention of printing through 1899 6997
Bartsch xx, 12-63
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