Dizionario Degli Architetti, Scultori, Pittori, Intagliatori In Rame Ed In Pietra, Coniatori Di Medaglie, Musaicisti, Niellatori, Intarsiatori D'Ogni Età E D'Ogni nazione Di Stefano Ticozzi Socio Onorario Dell'Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Carrara, Dell'Ateneo Di Venezia, Ec. Tomo Primo (- Quarto)
Milano: Presso Gaetano Schiepatti, M DCCC XXX. (- M DCCC XXXIII.)
Physical Description
4 vols. in two; 213 mm. (Quarto.)
General Note
Vol. I: 444 p. - Vol. II: 480 p. - Vol. III: 480 p. - Vol. IV: 256 p., 7, 2 pl.
Contents
Vol. I: [Blank leaf, half-t., t.p.] - Prefazione - [Text, A-D]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text, E-Morace]. - Vol. III: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text, Morales - Verheyden]. - Vol. IV: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text, Verkolie - Zylvet] - Appendice Prima (II) - Indice Degli Artisti Cui Appartengono Le Seguenti Cifre - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The plates are not signed.
The title-page of the first volume carries the publisher's imprint of Gaetano Schiepatti; those of the second and third, the imprint of 'Luigi Nervetti, Tipografo-Librajo Corsia del Duomo N.992'; that of the fourth, the imprint of 'Luigi Nervetti Tipografo-Librajo Vicolo di S. Zeno N. 5330.'
The printer is named on the half-title verso of Volume I: 'Dalla Tipografia Di Vincenzo Ferrario.'
Summary Note
The publication-dates are given on the title-pages as 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833.
Ticozzi's entries are very much from a Neoclassical perspective. For example, in Volume II he concludes his entry on the Baroque architect Guarino Guarini (1624-83) with the words, 'Morì per vantaggio dell'arte nel 1683.'
The first appendix adds dictionary-entries. The second consists of essays on architecture, painting and sculpture by F. Algarotti, L. Alberti.
The first group of plates in Volume IV (nos. 1-7) shows artists' monograms; the second, (nos. 1-2) shows figures of a male body and head.
Provenance
With the front free-endpapers in both volumes inscribed in ink, 'William Yeames Roma Dec. 1842.' This copy was presented to the RA Library in 1900 by his son, William Frederick Yeames, R.A. (see RA Annual Report for 1900, p. 40).
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