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Illustrissimo Virtutum Maecenati Atque Amplissimo Domino Domno Adriano Ulloae Et Regenti Dignissimo Paulus De Matthaeis, ut Tyrones addiscant hec Pictura Artis exempla dicat et consecrat.
Illustrissimo Virtutum Maecenati Atque Amplissimo Domino Domno Adriano Ulloae Et Regenti Dignissimo Paulus De Matthaeis, ut Tyrones addiscant hec Pictura Artis exempla dicat et consecrat.
Pau: de Mat: Inv. Fran. Aquila d.S.
[n.d., c.1720.]
Etching, 325 x 235mm. Horizontal crease through centre of plate, and along lower edge. Foxing.
A frontispiece.
[Ref: 7412]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Imagines veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphael Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani Palatii Xystis Mirà Picturae Elegantia Expressae.
Imagines veteris ac Novi Testamenti a Raphael Sanctio Urbinate in Vaticani Palatii Xystis Mirà Picturae Elegantia Expressae.
Petrus Aquila Inv. delin Sculp.
[Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, c.1675.]
Etched titlepage. 315 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"). Narrow margins, creases and stains.
The titlepage of a series of 55 plates reproducing the frescos painted by Raphael in the Vatican Logge. It features a medallion portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden, surrounded by a decorative design feturing military trophies, cornucopiae and a pari of lions. Christina (1626-1689) became Queen of Sweden in 1632, but in 1654 she converted to Catholicism and abdicated, moving to Rome where she became a patron of the arts. She is one of only three women buried in the Vatican Grottoes under St Peter's Basilica.
[Ref: 69394]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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Tabula IV. Statuæ [...]
Tabula IV. Statuæ [...]
Annibal Carraccius pinx. in Ædibus farnesianis. Petrus Aquila delin et sculp.
Io. Jacobi de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cu Priv. S. Pont. [1674-1693.
Etching, printed in sanguine. 370 x 560mm (14½ x 21¾") Wear to margins.
A plate from 'Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis', illustrating Annibale Carracci's mural in the Villa Farnesina. These are six contorted, muscular 'Captives', telamones inside niches from the painted ceiling of the Farnese gallery, divided by door-frames.
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Captiui, qui in utrâque Porticus fronte, Persei, atque Andromedes tabulas bracchijs, et humeris sulciunt; ijdemque ortamento sunt.
Captiui, qui in utrâque Porticus fronte, Persei, atque Andromedes tabulas bracchijs, et humeris sulciunt; ijdemque ortamento sunt.
Annibal Carraccius pinx. in Ædibus farnesianis. Petrus Aquila delin et sculp.
Io. Jacobi de Rubeis formis Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cu Priv. S. Pont. [1674-1693.
Etching, printed in sanguine. 370 x 560mm (14½ x 21¾") Torn.
A plate from 'Galeriae Farnesianae Icones', illustrating works of art from the Farnese gallery, Rome. On the first row are four small paintings with Hercules and the hydra, Minerva and Prometheus, Arion riding on a dolphin, Hercules and Prometheus; on the second row, two roundels on either side with the personifications of Charity and Justice; at centre, on the second raw, two further paintings of Peleus and Thetis (or Galatea?) and two tritons involved in a battle; on the third row, three busts in a round niche; on the fourth raw, four full-length classical sculptures.
[Ref: 33920]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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