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Le due regole della prospettiva pratica

Author: Jacopo (Giacomo) Barozzi da Vignola (Italian, 1507–1573)
Illustrated by: Jacopo (Giacomo) Barozzi da Vignola (Italian, 1507–1573)
Frontispiece designed by: Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1553–1615)
Printer: Francesco Zannetti (Italian, 16th century)
1583
Place of Publication: Rome, Italy

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with engraved title page, 29 engravings, and 120 woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 34.5 x 24.7 x 3 cm (13 9/16 x 9 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Samuel and Dorothy Glaser
Accession Number1979.650
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Rome: Francesco Zannetti, 1583

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet V, 1220; Fowler 386; Mortimer, Italian, 538; Bartsch 117 (Alberti title)
Description(Rome: Francesco Zannetti, 1583) Folio; 82 leaves; eighteenth-century gilt-stamped brown calf.

First edition (although Fowler alludes to the possibility of one the year before); the plate facing p. 89 is dated 1562.

Illustrations of perspective diagrams; author's portrait on title page; engraving of artists drawing sculpture (p. 60); rendering of extreme perspective of loggia (p. 88)
ProvenanceSamuel and Dorothy Glaser, Boston, by whom given to MFA, December 19, 1979.