Freggi dell'Architettura da Agostino Mitelli Pittore

Publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi Italian

ca. 1648–91

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Series of pilaster designs with candelabra grotesques after the marble decorations on the portal of the Bolognese church of S. Bartolomeo di Porta Ravegnana. Agostino Mitelli functioned as the intermediary draftsmen and likely published the first edition of the series himself in 1645. The copperplates were acquired by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1648. His reissue is undated. The series consists of a title page and 48 numbered plates, printed two to a page. They are meant to be pasted together to form 24 larger candelabras.

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Title: Freggi dell'Architettura da Agostino Mitelli Pittore
Artist: Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli (Italian, Battidizzo (Bologna) 1609–1660 Madrid)
Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)
Published in: Rome
Date: ca. 1648–91
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: 16 1/4 × 10 13/16 × 1 1/4 in. (41.2 × 27.5 × 3.2 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture, Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Object Number: 49.62.8(1-25)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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