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VENUTI, Ridolfino (1705-1763); AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristofano. Vetera monumenta quae in hortis Caelimontanis et in aedibus Matthaeiorum adservantur. Rome: Monaldini, 1776-1779.
A work illustrating the extraordinary collection of Roman and Greek antiquities collected by the Mattei family at the Villa Celimontana and later ceded in large part to the Vatican Museums, where it still represents an important nucleus of the Pio-Clementino Museum. The creation of the volumes is due to the will of Giuseppe Mattei, Duca di Giove, who had a series of drawings made to represent all the sculptures in the collection and later commissioned Ridolfino Venuti and Amaduzzi to write the catalogues. When Venuti died in 1763, Amaduzzi supervised the engraving of the 270 plates and completed the text with the help of Ennio Quirino Visconti3 volumes, folio, (428 x 287 mm). Engraved title-pages for each volume, engraved dedication to Stanislaus II of Poland to the first volume, 266 numbered plates in total (of 270, plates 9-12 of the first volume missing, some leaves browned and some spotting). Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt title and decoration on spine. (3)
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
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