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Francesco piranesi6/25/2023 2 etched titles in Latin and Italian, index leaf, 53 plates, plans and maps on 49 leaves, 2 of the plates double-page and one folding, 6 double-page sheets forming a single large-scale map of Rome. The second treatise belongs to a group of architectural works which, though first issued in Rome, 1761, were prepared during the previous decade as extensions of the Antichit Romane. Etched title and 10 numbered plates on 11 leaves, including 8 double-page, headpiece and full-page illustration. Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia]. Etched title, dedication to Pope Clement III and one double-page folding plate. In 1760 Piranesi reissued the plates as Carceri d'inventione, reworking many of the original plates with stronger tonal contrasts and adding further design elements. This marked the first dateable appearance of the celebrated Carceri under the title Invenzioni capric di Carceri. These four works were published together by Giovanni Bouchard in 1750 in the combination volume Opere varie di Architettura, Prospettive, Grotteschi, Antichit. The 4 works bound together as volume VIII. Etched title and 14 plates, 10 of these double-page. engraved text, and 28 etched plates, the final plate by Francesco. tear at blank margin, caused by paper fault.) Alcune vedute, Archi trionfali ed altri monumenti. Etched title and 27 plates, including 6 double-page. Prima parte di Architetture e Prospetive. The second work, the Osservazioni, is a refutation of the French critic Mariette who in 1764 attacked Piranesi's theories about the Etruscans, arguing that they were Greek colonists and that most building work in Rome was carried out by Greek slaves. However, the imaginative richness and sheer variety of late Roman ornament in many of Piranesi's illustrations were directed against Le Roy's Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grce (1758) and his arguments in favour of restrained Attic detail. In Della Magnificenza Piranesi made a claim for the superiority of Etruscan art to that of the Greeks, on the grounds that it was older and more gifted he also claimed that the Etruscans were the first instructors of the Romans. Cunego after Piranesi and 51 etched plates in two series numbered 1-38 and 1-9 with 4 unnumbered plates in the first part, 20 plates double- page and one double-page and folding, engraved initials and culs-de-lampe. Etched Latin and Italian titles, engraved portrait of Pope Clement XIII by D. Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de Romani. (Title slightly soiled at outer margin.) Bound as volume VI. 52 etched plates comprising 50 plates in three numbered series and 2 unnumbered plates, 36 double-page and one double-page and folding. As John Wilton-Ely notes, the work includes plates by or after other artists, chiefly in volumes II and III. Volume IV concentrates on the heroic feats of Roman engineering in the form of bridges and monumental structures such as the Curia Hostilia, the substructure of the Temple of Claudius, Hadrian's mausoleum (the Castel Sant'Angelo), and the Theatre of Marcellus. Volumes II-III include the plans of the Camera Sepolcrali, and are devoted to the extensive remains of sepulchres around Rome. Volume I explains the urban structure of ancient Rome in terms of its walls, defences and aqueducts as well as its public monuments. His aim, as with all his archaeological publications, was both to record the vanishing past for scholars and to inspire contemporary designers to emulate the achievements of ancient Rome. This work, which required eight years of careful study and excavation by Piranesi, established his reputation as the leading protagonist of Roman archaeology when it first appeared in 1756. The three additional plates in volume I are views of the Castel Sant'Angelo, the Basilica de St. Piranesi after Joseph Cades, 222 etched plates, including one plate on 2 sheets, each volume with a separate number sequence, volume I extra-illustrated with 3 unnumbered plates at end, approximately 118 plates double-page and 7 double-page and folding. AN EXTREMELY FINE SET OF THE WORKS, ALL UNCUT AND REMARKABLY FRESH COPIES. Provenance: Bibliothque de Broglie (bookplate in vol. 29 works or collections in 27 volumes, folio, the many double-page plates mounted on guards, contemporary grey-and-white marbled boards (some joints weak, spines rubbed or, in a few cases, worn).
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