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RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2145
Imprint
Hæc omnium, quæ extant nobilissima Romanæ magnitudinis monumenta ad perenne antiquitatis studium, ac decus cura, sumptibus, ac typis edita à Joanne Jacobo de Rubeis, restituit auxit Dominicus de Rubeis Chalcographus, Anno M.DC.XCIII., Romæ ad Templum Sæ. Mæ. de Pace, cum Privil. Summi Pont. et Licentia Superiorum.
Physical Description
84 pl. (incl. t.-pl., dedic.); 370×470 mm.
Contents
[T.pl., dedic.] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
Thirty-six plates are signed as drawn and engraved by Petrus Sanctus Bartolus; plate 30 is signed 'R.V.A f'; plates 53, 54 are signed 'PF'. The portrait of Cardinal Chigi above the dedication is signed 'V. Guigou fe'.
Twenty-six plates carry the imprint of the publisher Io. Iacob. de Rubeis; twenty, that of Dominicus de Rubeis (one, pl. 81, dated 1693).
The publication is dedicated by the publisher, Dominicus de Rubeis, to Cardinal Flavio Chigi.
Twenty-six plates carry the imprint of the publisher Io. Iacob. de Rubeis; twenty, that of Dominicus de Rubeis (one, pl. 81, dated 1693).
The publication is dedicated by the publisher, Dominicus de Rubeis, to Cardinal Flavio Chigi.
References
RIBA, Early printed, 1 (1994), no. 206, p.116-7 [describes mainly a pre-1693 edition].
Summary Note
The sculptures shown are accompanied by a short explanatory caption, and statement of location. Several are from the collections of the Barberini, Medici, Borghese, Mattei, Giustiniani and Pamphili; a smaller number from the collections of the Mazarins, Montalto, Della Valle, the Queen of Sweden, Farnese, Massimi, Sacchetti and Vitelleschi; one is from the collection of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, to whom the work is dedicated. Others are from the Vatican and Capitoline collections, from churches and from the Forum of Nerva. Only one is shown from outside Rome, from the royal collection in Madrid.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
Imperfect; lacks plate 84.
Binding Note
Contemporary vellum; 18th-century calf spine, with gilt decoration and stamp 'R.A.'; black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Bartoli And Bellori Admir. Roman. Antiquit.'
Name as Subject
Subject
Sculpture, Roman - Statues - Bas-reliefs - Antiquities, Roman - Italy - Rome - History
Collections - Villas - Italy - Rome - 17th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 17th century
Collections - Villas - Italy - Rome - 17th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 17th century
Contributors
Pietro Santi Bartoli, draughtsman, engraver
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Flavio Chigi Cardinal, dedicatee
Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, publisher
Domenico de Rossi, publisher
V. Guigou
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Flavio Chigi Cardinal, dedicatee
Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, publisher
Domenico de Rossi, publisher
V. Guigou
