Iconologia Deorum, Oder Abbildung der Götter / Welche von den Alten verehret worden: Aus den Welt-berühmtesten Antichen der Griechischen und Römischen Statuen ' auch in Marmel ... etc. ... sorgfältig abgesehen. Samt dero eigentlicher Beschreibung ... der Heidnischen Tempel-Ceremonien / Auch Vorbildung der Thiere und anderer Sachen ... Durch Joachim von Sandrart ...
Nürnberg /: Gedruckt durch Christian Siegmund Froberger / in Verlegung des Authoris, Leipzig dey Christoff Riegel von Nürnberg zu finden., Anno M DC LXXX.
Physical Description
[42], 212, [14] p., frontis., port., [1] dble pl., pl. A-Z, AA-KK (6 dble.): illus.; 387 mm. (Quarto).
Contents
[Half-t., frontis., t.p., dedic., port.] - [Poems to Sandrart] - Eigene Genamung - [Text, with pl.] - Register ...
Responsibility Note
Most plates are signed as drawn by Joachim de Sandrart and engraved by J.J. Sandrart, R. Collin, G.C. Eimmart, J. Meyer or S.M. Sandrart.
The work is dedicated by Sandrart to Friedrich Wilhelm, Kurfürst von Brandenburg-Preussen.
References
For studies of classical mythology see the bibliographic note on V. Cartari, Les Images Des Dieux (1581).
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Copy Note
Imperfect; lacks pl. DD.
Binding Note
Recased in half calf in 1988 by A. Wessely, 19th-century brown cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Iconologia Deorum'.
Subject
Gods, Greek - Gods, Roman - Mythology, Greek - Mythology, Roman - History
Art, Greek - Art, Roman - History
Art history - Iconology - Germany - 17th century
Pictorial works - Germany - 17th century