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Varie pitture a fresco de' principali maestri veneziani

Etched by: Anton Maria Zanetti II (Italian, 1706–1778)
After: Giorgione (Italian, about 1477–1510)
After: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)
After: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian (Venetian), about 1518–1594)
After: Battista Zelotti (Italian, about 1526–1578)
After: Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian (Venetian), 1528–1588)
Author: Anton Maria Zanetti II (Italian, 1706–1778)
1778
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with engraved title page and 25 etchings printed in brown ink
Dimensions Overall: 45.5 x 33.9 x 2 cm (17 15/16 x 13 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. Edmund Schilling in memory of Dr. Georg Swarzenski
Accession Number57.622
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: [1778 or later]

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet V, 1524; Morazzoni, Il libro illustrato veneziano del settecento, p. 261
Description(Venice: [1778 or later]) Folio; 33 leaves; contemporary[?rebacked] half gilt-stamped brown calf, red pastepaper boards, patterned pastepaper endpapers.

Author portrait; illustrations of details from sixteenth-century Venetian fresco paintings. Edition datable 1778 or later of Zanetti's publication, first issued in 1760 (date still on title). This edition is after the inclusion of his posthumous portrait and the letterpress "Memoria." In addition, the papers in this and the other MFA copy (BR1203) are different from each other, and the letterpress text has been reset. The portrait is signed "Joannes de Plano" as engraver; it is unclear whether he may be identified with Johann Deplan, known in Prague ca. 1730 (Thieme-Becker). The plates in this copy are printed in brown ink; those in the other MFA copy are printed in black. The copy at the Houghton Library, Harvard, is hand-colored; it also includes the 1778 portrait of Zanetti and the "Memoria."
ProvenanceDr. Edmund Schilling, by whom given to MFA, September 12, 1957.