Paris: A Morel, Libraire-Éditeur 13, Rue Bonaparte, 13, M DCCC LXVI
Physical Description
[8] p., 66 pl.; 447 mm.
Contents
[Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Table Des Planches; [colophon] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed as drawn by Georges Rohault.
Some are signed as both drawn and engraved by him and two are signed as engraved by him and E. Gibert; but most are signed as engraved by others - E. Gibert, Ch. Sauvageot, L. Boisset, Le Coq, Bessy, Huguet jeune, Huguet ainé, A. Chap(p)uis, J. Penel or Soudain..
Each plate carries the imprint of the publisher, A. Morel, and the printer, Lemercier et Cie.
The text printer is named on the half-title verso and in the colophon: 'J. Claye Imprimeur: r. S. Benoit 7 à Paris'.
The work is dedicated by Rohault de Fleury to M. Thiers.
References
D. Dringoli and P. Primavori, All'ombre della torre: immagini dalle chiese di Pisa (1994); M. Trachtenberg, 'Gothic/Italian "Gothic": toward a redefinition', in J. Soc. Archit. Historians, I (1991), p.22-37.
Summary Note
The first plate is a view of the interior of Pisa cathedral; the second, a plan of the city. Plates 3-43 show views, plans, sections, elevations and architectural details of the cathedral complex (the work of Buschetto, Rainaldo, Guglielmo and Diotisalvi) and other churches and houses. Plates 44-59 show sculptures; plates 60-66, paintings. This atlas was issued to accompany the text volume, Les monuments de Pise au Moyen Age (1866).
Binding Note
19th-century quarter brown morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Rohault De Fleury - Monuments De Pise Au Moyen Age Atlas'' and 'R.A.'
Architecture - Architecture details - Sculpture - Paintings - Public buildings - Churches - Cathedrals - Italy - Tuscany - Pisa - History - Romanesque - Gothic
Art history - France - 19th century
Plans - Elevations - Views - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - France - 19th century