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RUBEIS, Jacob. AQUILA, Petrus.
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RUBEIS, Jacob. AQUILA, Petrus.
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
RUBEIS, Jacob. AQUILA, Petrus.
Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis Romæ in ædibus sereniss. Ducis Parmensis ab Annibale Carraccio æternitati pictæ.
Rome, Rubeis, (1677).
Oblong folio. Contemporary half-basane (binding scuffed, some pinholes).
13 black etchings including the frontispiece title page, numbered and signed.
Etchings drawn and engraved by Petrus Aquila, ‘Delineated and engraved by Petrus Aquila’, after the frescoes by Annibale Carraccius, known as Carracci, painted between 1596 and 1597 on commission from Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of the Camerino Farnese in the Palazzo, now the French Embassy in Rome.
A complete set of 13 fine folio prints.
Depicts the Labours of Hercules and other allegorical scenes. The second plate contains the publisher’s dedication to Cardinal César d’Estrées.
Published without a date, the collection is mentioned in Rossi’s Index of 1677. The plates reproduce the frescoes painted by Annibale Carraccius between 1596 and 1597 for Cardinal Farnese on the ceiling of the Camerino Farnese in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
PALAZZO FARNESE.
The Masters of Ornamentation, 40.
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