Varie Pitture A Fresco De' Principali maestri Veneziani Ora la prima volta con le stampe pubblicate.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/742
Imprint
In Venezia: MDCCLX.
Physical Description
[ii], xii p., t.pl., frontis. (port.), 24 pl.; 497 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.pl., frontis. (port.)] - Memoria - [Plates 1-24] - Notizie Intorno alla presente Raccolta. - [In some copies the 'Memoria' is bound in at the end of the work.]
Responsibility Note
The 'Memoria' states, 'La presente Opera fu immaginata, disegnata, illustrata, e ... miniata da Anton-Maria Zanetti di Alessandro Viniziano ... Et io Girolamo suo minor fratello che scrivo le presenti brevi notizie ...'
The frontispiece portrait of Zanetti is signed as drawn by Anton: Mariae Zanetti and engraved by Joannes de Plano. Plates 1-24 each carry the name of the source-artist; none is signed by the engraver. The title-plate vignette and the tailpiece and decorative initial of the 'Notizie' are unsigned.
References
Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 4 (2001), no. 3739.
On the Zanetti cousins see F. Borroni Salvadori, I due Anton Maria Zanetti (1956).
Summary Note
Although the title-plate carries the date of 1760, in this issue the caption of the frontispiece portrait of Zanetti and the 'Memoria' refer to his death in 1778.
The plates show frescoes captioned as painted by Giorgione (pl. 1-4), Titian (pl. 5-7), Tintoretto (pl. 8-14), Zelotti (pl. 15-19) and Veronese (pl. 20-24). The subjects are all human figures, male and female, clothed and unclothed, apart from pl. 20, 21, which show putti.
Provenance
Although first listed in the 1877 printed catalogue of the RA Library, this work may be the 'Various frescoes at Venice' 'that Council ordered to be purchased on 21 April 1841 (see RA Council Minutes, IX, 187).
Binding Note
18th-century quarter calf, cream paper-covered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Zanet. Piture A Fresco'.
Paintings, Italian - Frescoes - Italy - Venice - History - 15th century - 16th century - Renaissance
People - Women - Men (male humans)
Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century