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PIROLI, Tommaso. Raccolta di dodici virtù personificate disp…
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PIROLI, Tommaso. Raccolta di dodici virtù personificate disp…
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Estimate €500 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
PIROLI, Tommaso.
Raccolta di dodici virtù personificate dispinte co' disegni di Rafaello d'Urbino nella sala detta di Giulio Romano al Vaticano...
In Roma, Presso il Sud.o a Strada Gregoriana N°. 34, (19th century).
In-folio (47.5 x 34 cm), engraved title, 12 plates. In azure dust jacket, with engraved title label on upper cover (marginal soiling).
Very rare suite of twelve allegorical plates engraved on copper in black by Tommaso Piroli (ca 1752-1824), representing personified virtues, after drawings by Raphael d'Urbino, for the so-called Giulio Romano room in the Vatican.
No copy in the CCFr.
Large margins. A fine copy.
These large figures, remarkably conceived and finely sculpted, are considered to be among Piroli's finest works.
Cicognara, II, 3435.
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Lot description modified on 06/03/2026 at 12:04 PM
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