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Friday, July 13, 2012

Rossi, Incisioni di statuaria romana antica -- "Raccolta di statue romane antiche"

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Raccolta di Statue Romane Antiche

ALTRA DEL MEDESIMO CON IL PILEOLO SOLAMENTE ALATO IN TESTA

These 'incisioni' are from the very rare book from 1704 titled
Raccolta di Statue Romane Antiche by the Roman publisher
Domenico de Rossi, which had
163 very fine engravings of Statues
according to Henry G. Bohn's catalog of books.

MARSIA SCORTICATO DA APOLLO



STATVA DI MARTE NVDO E DISARMATO CON ARMI AI PIEDI









In 1704 the Roman publisher Domenico de Rossi published a large, handsome and lavishly illustrated volume devoted principally to the ancient statues of Rome.

To comment on the plates he commissioned a text from the antiquarian Paola Alessandro Maffei.

Through his uncle, Maffei was very closely linked to French interests in the city and the majority of draughtsmen and engravers employed in the enterprise were French, who played a preponderant role in spreading knowledge about the appearance of antique sculpture.

De Rossi deliberately set out to illustrate the most highly esteemed statues, though he included also some of lesser quality because of the interest of their subject matter.

 In its attempt to set up qualitative standards his book was the most authoritative that had yet appeared and it showed little of the waywardness of the earlier anthologies that preceded it.

Although Maffei's text was learned enough, the publication as a whole—like the Gemmae Antiche Figurate which followed it three years later—was designed for the cultivated art lover, and, unlike the thin folio published by Francois Perrier seventy years earlier, a few independent artists or craftsmen could have afforded to buy it.



















STATVA D’VN FAUNO CORONATO DI PINO




















STATVA D’VN FAUNO






IL SUICIDA
LA MEDESIMA STATVA IN UEDVTA DI FIANCO












STATVA D’ERCOLE NEL PALAZZO FARNESE CELEBRATISSIMA OPERA DI GLICONE ATENIESE






LA MEDESIMA STATVA DELL’ERCOLE IN ALTRA VEDVTA

The book has the feature of combining multiple views of some famous statues, here is the Farnese Hercules.


The book is referenced in these two books at Amazon.com.










Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body
























Der Farnesische Stier Und Die Dirkegruppe Des Apollonios Und Tauriskos (Jahrbuch Des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Erganzungsbande , Vol 30) (German Edition)

Other books of interest:













Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the ClassicalSTATVA DEL GLADIATORE MORIBONDO














Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca. 331-200 B.C. (Wisconsin Studies in Classics, Richard Daniel De Puma and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Series Editors)




















ANTINOU FAORITO D’ADRIANO IMPERATORE E PER COMMANDAMENTO DEL MEDESIMO UENERATOR DOPO CHE FV MORTO TRA GL’EROI, E DEIFICATO ALL’VSO DE’ GENTILI


















Antinous, Flickr page of classical sculptures of Antinous.




















IL LAOCOONTE GIA AMMIRATO NEL PALAZZO DI TITO E SCOLPITO DA AGESANDRO POLIDORO






Image of the Laocoon Group, compare it to the study by Doctor J. Fau.
See this blog post. Anatomy for Art Students, Painters and Sculptors.

Copper plate prints from a variation on the book are at this site: philographikon.com
Other individual pages from the book as well as a complete copy are available at AbeBooks.com - Art Books.
More Rossi Prints at Elizabeth Legge Fine Antique Prints.






 



IL TORSO DEL BEL-VEDERE









 


Other ebay items are at the Carluantiques store.
Engravings from the book are for sale on Ebay Click here to see them for sale on Ebay.


 


 



 





 

 


One copy of the entire book is for sale on Ebay
Click here to see them for sale on Ebay.





 


 



 

L'APOLLO DEL BELVEDERE



SILENO E BACCO






SUICIDA

 





 



SUICIDA




ERCOLE FARNESIANO

 

Ratto delle Sabine


 

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