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| 100 | 1 | # | $a Ridolfi |
| 245 | 1 | 3 | $a Le Maraviglie Dell'Arte, Overo Le Vite De Gl' Illustri Pittori Veneti, E Dello Stato. Ove sono raccolte le Opere Insigni, i costumi, & i ritratti loro. Con la narratione delle Historie, delle Favole, e delle Moralità da quelli dipinte. Descritte Dal Cavalier Carlo Ridolfi. Con tre Tavole copiose de' Nomi de' Pittori antichi, e moderni, e delle cose Notabili. Parte Prima. A gl' Illustrissimi Signori Fratelli Reinst, Il Cavalier Giovanni Sign. Di Niel, E Commissario appresso la Maestà Christianissima per li Potentissimi Stati delle Provincie Unite, E Gerardo Senatore D'Amsterdamo. |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Delle Maraviglie Dell'Arte |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Vite Degl' Illustri Pittori Veneti |
| 260 | # | # | $a In Venetia, $b Presso Gio: Battista Sgava. $c MDCXLVIII. - Con Licenza De' Superiori, E Privilegi. All'Insegna della Toscana. $c [1648] |
| 300 | # | # | $a 2 parts [in one]; $c 215 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a Vol. I: [60], 406 p., add. engr. t.pl., port.: [20] illus.(ports.). - Vol. II: [58], 324, engr. t.pl.: [16] illus. (ports.) (The illus. are full-page and some have no letter-press texts on their reverses, but all are counted in the pagination sequence. The title-plate and port. of Part I and the title-plate of Part II should also probably be included within the total of unnumbered preliminary pages. They appear to be included in the signature sequences.) |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a Vol. I: [T.pl., t.p., dedic.] - Cortese Lettore - [Port. of Ridolfi] - [Addresses to Ridolfi] - Lettore ... Errori della Prima Parte - Tavola De' Pittori Antichi ... - Tavola Delle Vite De' Pittori Moderni, Veneti ... - Autori Citati - Tavola Delle Cose Notabili ... - [Text and pl.] - Vol. II: [T.pl., dedic., poems to Ridolfi] - Cortese Lettore - Errori non annotati della Prima Parte ...; Errori della Seconda Parte - Tavola Delle Vite De' Pittori Moderni Veneti ... - Tavola Delle Cose Notabili ... - [Text and pl.]. |
| 508 | # | # | $a The title-plate of Part I is signed as designed by Car. Rodulphius and engraved by Jacob. Picinus; that of Part II, as engraved by Jacob. Picinus. Most illustrations are signed as engraved by Giac. Piccini (Jacob. Picinus, I. Picinus, I.P.), but one is signed as engraved by G. Georgi and the portrait of Varotari is signed as engraved by Darius Var. Nepos. Only the first portrait (of Ridolfi) is signed by a draughtsman - 'M. Antonii Romili I.C.' |
| 510 | 0 | # |
$a C. Ridolfi, Le Meraviglie dell'arte, ed. D.F. von Hadeln (2 v., 1914-24). C. Gould, 'Ridolfi the historian', in Apollo CXXV/301 (1987), p.197-9; A. Carroll, 'On the credibility of Ridolfi's Lives of the Venetian painters', in Austral. J. A., 2 (1980), p.51-62. |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a Part II has no letter-press title-page. Its engraved title-plate reads, 'Delle Maraviglie Dell'Arte, Overo Delle Vite Degl'Illustri Pittori Veneti, E Dello Stato. Descritte Dal Cavalier Carlo Ridolfi. Parte Seconda Al Molto Illustre Signor Bortolo Dafino. In Venetia, Presso Gio. Battista Sgava MDCXLVIII. Con Licenza De' Superiori, E Privilegi. All'Insegna Della Toscana.' The added engraved title-plate of Part I reads, 'Le Maraviglie Dell'Arte'. This collection of biographies by Ridolfi includes a reprint of his biography of Tintoretto (first published in 1642) and his autobiography. |
| 561 | # | # | $a This work does not appear in the 1802 printed catalogue of the RA Library but was one of the five books that the Keeper, Henry Fuseli asked Council's permission to borrow 'during the Exhibition' in 1814 (see RA Council Minutes V, 15 April 1814). |
| 562 | # | # |
$a In Part I the margin of p.306 is inscribed in ink, 'I have a drawing of ... of the ... probably ...'. In Part II four of the unnumbered preliminary pages (carrying poems, 'Cortese Lettore' and 'Errori non annotati') have been bound in between p. 322 and 323. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century calf; rebacked in 1997 by Aquarius, gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Ridolfi Vite De Pittori'. |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Ridolfi |
| 653 | # | # | $a Artists - Painters - Painting - Italy - Veneto - Venice - History - 16th century - Renaissance |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Art history - Biography - Portraits - Italy - 17th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - Italy - 17th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Sgava $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Ridolfi $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Piccini $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Georgi $e engraver |