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VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782). Racolta di vari schizi de ornate di celebre autore. Venice: Antonio Visentini, 1747.
2o (485 x 360 mm). Engraved title and 23 engraved plates after Angelo de Rossi. (Some marginal mould spotting on last eight plates, some darkening along gutter margins from old reinforcements along the folds of the sheets.) Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt (some worming and rubbing). Provenance: sold Christie's, 9 December 1983, lot 139; acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1984.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of late baroque and rococo decorations after the drawings of Angelo de Rossi, the distinctive Genovese sculptor and decorator of the Bernini school who worked in Rome from 1689 and executed the tomb of Alexander VIII. The 23 plates contain 58 subjects, including cornices, frames, over-doors, over-windows, fireplaces, niches and ceilings with putti, swags and scrolls, and small trompe l'oeil views. Visentini suppressed de Rossi's name, possibly because he wanted to reflect his own taste rather than the drier, more conservative work de Rossi produced under the patronage of Consul Joseph Smith. An English version, with de Rossi's name on the title-page, appeared a few years later in 1753. Berlin Kat. 588 (a very incomplete copy).
2o (485 x 360 mm). Engraved title and 23 engraved plates after Angelo de Rossi. (Some marginal mould spotting on last eight plates, some darkening along gutter margins from old reinforcements along the folds of the sheets.) Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt (some worming and rubbing). Provenance: sold Christie's, 9 December 1983, lot 139; acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1984.
FIRST EDITION of this collection of late baroque and rococo decorations after the drawings of Angelo de Rossi, the distinctive Genovese sculptor and decorator of the Bernini school who worked in Rome from 1689 and executed the tomb of Alexander VIII. The 23 plates contain 58 subjects, including cornices, frames, over-doors, over-windows, fireplaces, niches and ceilings with putti, swags and scrolls, and small trompe l'oeil views. Visentini suppressed de Rossi's name, possibly because he wanted to reflect his own taste rather than the drier, more conservative work de Rossi produced under the patronage of Consul Joseph Smith. An English version, with de Rossi's name on the title-page, appeared a few years later in 1753. Berlin Kat. 588 (a very incomplete copy).