The Fountains of Rome: Selected Plates from the Classic "Le Fontane di Roma", 1660-1675 - Softcover

Falda, Giovanni Battista; Venturini, Giovanni Francesco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486493857 ISBN 13: 9780486493855

Publisher: Dover, 2014

Synopsis

Dating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full-page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture, details of topography and garden design, and portraits of seventeenth-century Romans at leisure. Featured sites include St. Peter's Basilica within the Vatican, Piazza Barberini and the Piazza Farnese in the city's historical center, and the Villa Ludovisi, a peaceful suburban retreat long since razed to make way for the fashionable Via Veneto.
This compilation is the only edition in print of these outstanding engravings. Architectural historians, aficionados of the Eternal City, and lovers of art and architecture will prize this historically valuable collection, which offers rare glimpses of many now-vanished and much-altered Roman locales.

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About the Author

Italian architect, engraver, and artist, Giovanni Battista Falda (1640–78) is famed for his engravings of both contemporary and antique Roman buildings. His works were particularly relished by souvenir-seeking visitors of the Grand Tour era.

From the Back Cover

Dating from the 1600s, these rare views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens represent some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The full-page engravings demonstrate expert handling of perspective in a wealth of settings that incorporate architecture, details of topography and garden design, and portraits of seventeenth-century Romans at leisure. Featured sites include St. Peter's Basilica within the Vatican, Piazza Barberini and the Piazza Farnese in the city's historical center, and the Villa Ludovisi, a peaceful suburban retreat long since razed to make way for the fashionable Via Veneto.
This compilation is the only edition in print of these outstanding engravings. Architectural historians, aficionados of the Eternal City, and lovers of art and architecture will prize this historically valuable collection, which offers rare glimpses of many now-vanished and much-altered Roman locales.
Dover (2014) republication of the edition originally published by Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, c. 1691.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Dover
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486493857
• ISBN 13: 9780486493855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96