Main entry:

Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709, author, artist.

Title & Author:

Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum Andreae Putei e Societate Jesu : pars prima[-pars secunda].

Publication:

Romae : Typis Joannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi apud S. Angelum Custodem, M.DC.XCIII.-MDCC. [1693-1700]

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (engravings), plans ; 42 cm (fol.)

Notes:
With parallel title pages in Italian.
Pars secunda imprint reads: Romae, anno Jubilei MDCC. Ex typographia Jo. Jacobi Komarek Boemi, propè SS. Vincentium, & Anastasium in Trivio.
Descriptive letterpress face engraved plates.
100 numbered engraved plates with perspectival and architectural plans and illustrations in the first part, 118 numbered engraved plates with perspectival and architectural plans and illustrations in the second.
Title vignette on all 4 title pages; historiated and floriated initials.
Plates engraved by Vincenzo Mariotti; frontispiece (volume 2) signed: Teodoro Ver Cruys.
Includes lists of plates.
First eds. of both pts. (pt. 2 was published simultaneously in 3 different bilingual versions: Latin-Italian, Italian-German, and Italian-French).
pars prima. In quâ docetur modus expeditissimus delineandi opticè omnia qu[ae] pertinent ad architecturam = In cui s'insegna il modo più sbrigato di mettere in prospettiva tutti i disegni d'architettura -- pars secunda. In quâ proponitur modus expeditissimus delineandi opticè omnia quae pertinent ad architecturam = In cui s'insegna il modo più sbrigato di mettere in prospettiva tutti i disegni d'architettura -- Institutio brevis pingendi albarium recens = Breve instruttione per dipingere à fresco.
Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 854
Fowler architectural collection of the Johns Hopkins University, 251
Latin and Italian in parallel columns.
Library copy: v. 1: p. [15]-[16] misbound before p. [13]; p. [17]-[18] misbound after p. [20]; 4 leaves for figs. 32-36 misbound before text leaf for fig. 36 and plates 37-40. Plate 50 is a cancel.
Library copy: v. 2: figs. 32, 52 and 55 are cancels and figs. 50, 62, 63 and 106 are misnumbered respectively 49, 26, 36, 108. The text for fig. 114 is in Italian and German.
Library copy: from the library of Arnaud de Vitry; ownership inscription of the Dutch architect Johan Franciscus Schepers on Latin t.p., v. 1; unidentified late 19th-cent. book plate with cypher on front paste-down, v. 1.
Library copy: binding: v. 1: contemporary stiff velum; v. 2: contemporary flexible vellum.
First pt.: Latin and Italian. Second pt.: Italian and French.

Subject:

Perspective Early works to 1800.
Mural painting and decoration, Baroque Pictorial works.
Theaters Stage-setting and scenery Pictorial works.
Church architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Baroque Early works to 1800.
Perspective Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture chrétienne Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture baroque Ouvrages avant 1800.
Perspective

Form/genre:

Engravings (prints) Italy 17th century.
Early works
Treatises.
Vellum (parchment) bindings.

Added entries:

Verkruys, Theodor, -1739, engraver.
Mariotti, Vincenzo, -1738, engraver.
Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709. Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum. Italian.
Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709. Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum. Pars secunda. French & Italian.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Italy Rome,
Provenance. Vitry, Arnaud de.
Provenance. Schepers, Johan Franciscus, 1818-1886. Inscription.
Autographs. Schepers, Johan Franciscus, 1818-1886.

Prospettiva de' pittori e architetti d'Andrea Pozzo della compagnia di Giesù

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 221683
Call No.: NA44.P894.A71 1693
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 221684
Call No.: NA44.P894.A71 1693
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available