Title & Author:

Serie degli uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura : con i loro elogi, e ritratti incisi in rame cominciando dalla sua prima restaurazione fino ai tempi presenti ...

Publication:

In Firenze : Nella stamperia di S.A.R. per Gaetano Cambiagi, l'anno MDCCLXIX.-MDCCLXXV. [1769-1775]

Description:

12 volumes : portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Title vignettes.
Half titles.
Date of publication precedes name of publisher.
Volume 1 has handcolored added engraved title page by Sante Pacini after Jacopo Pontormo.
Imprint varies. Vol. 3: Nella stamperia di Luigi Bastianelli e compagni; v. 4-7: Presso Domenico Marzi, e compagni; v. 8-12: Nella stamperia Allegrini, Pisoni, e comp.
The portraits are from the drawings by Ignazio Hugford, most of them engraved by G.B. Cecchi. The accompanying biographical sketches, written by Hugford's friends, are chiefly summaries from Vasari, Malvasia, and others. Cf. G. Melzi, Dizionario di opre anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani.
Imprint varies: vol. 1-2: Nella stamperia di S.A.R. per G. Cambiagi; v. 3: L. Bastianelli e compagni; v. 4-7: D. Marzi e compagni; v. 8-12: Allergrini, Pisoni, e comp.
Cicognara, 2370
BM, v. 219, column 307
Melzi, G. Anonime e pseudonime, III, 55

Subject:

Artists Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Painters Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Architects Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Engravers Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Architects.
Artists.
Engravers.
Painters.

Form/genre:

engravings (prints)
Early works.
Dictionaries.
Gravures.

Added entries:

Pacini, Sante, 1735-approximately 1800.
Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556.
Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815.
Cambiagi, Gaetano, printer.
Bastianelli, Luigi, printer.
Marzi, Domenico, printer.
Italy Florence.

Abecedario pittorico dall'origine delle belle arti

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