RUBEIS, Jacob. AQUILA, Petrus. Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi - Lot 191

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RUBEIS, Jacob. AQUILA, Petrus. Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi - Lot 191
RUBEIS, Jacob. AQUILA, Petrus. Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis Romæ in ædibus sereniss. Ducis Parmensis ab Annibale Carraccio æternitati pictæ. Roma, Rubeis, (1677). In folio oblong. Contemporary half basane (binding rubbed, some spotting). 13 black etchings with title-frontispiece, numbered and signed. Etchings drawn and engraved by Petrus Aquila, A Petro Aquila delineatæ incisæ, after the frescoes by Annibale Carraccius, known as Carracci, commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese between 1596 and 1597 for the ceiling of the Camerino Farnese in the Palazzo, now the French Embassy in Rome. Complete with 13 fine folio prints. They depict the labors of Hercules and other allegorical scenes. The second plate contains the publisher's dedication to Cardinal César d'Estrées. Published without date, the collection is mentioned in Rossi's Index of 1677. The plates reproduce the frescoes painted by Annibale Carraccius between 1596 and 1597 for Cardinal Odoardo Farnese on the ceiling of the Camerino Farnese in Rome's Palazzo Farnese. Les Maitres ornemanistes, 40.
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