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Giovanni Battista Gisleni (1600-1672), Record book of 116 designs for buildings in Poland, particularly in Cracow, for town and country houses, palaces, manors, churches, tombs, etc. Insc: (on frontispiece) Varii Disegni/D'Architettura/Inventati e delineati/Da Gio:Battista Gisleni/Romano/Architetto delle MMta et Sermo/Prencipe di Polonia e Sueta. Bound in leather, tooled in gold (330 x 220). Bound into the volume at the back is a pamphlet titled Varieta/De Prospetti/Veduti nella Chiesa/Catthedrale/Del Regio Castello/di Cracowia 1649
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Reference number
Vol 121
Purpose
Giovanni Battista Gisleni (1600-1672), Record book of 116 designs for buildings in Poland, particularly in Cracow, for town and country houses, palaces, manors, churches, tombs, etc. Insc: (on frontispiece) Varii Disegni/D'Architettura/Inventati e delineati/Da Gio:Battista Gisleni/Romano/Architetto delle MMta et Sermo/Prencipe di Polonia e Sueta. Bound in leather, tooled in gold (330 x 220). Bound into the volume at the back is a pamphlet titled Varieta/De Prospetti/Veduti nella Chiesa/Catthedrale/Del Regio Castello/di Cracowia 1649
Inscribed
on frontispiece) Varii Disegni/D’Architettura/Inventati e delineati/Da Gio:Battista Gisleni/Romano/Architetto delle MMta et Sermo/Prencipe di Polonia e Sueta
Medium and dimensions
Bound in leather, tooled in gold (330 x 220)
Hand
Giovanni Battista Gisleni (1600 - 1672)
Notes
Gisleni was architect, musician and theatre designer to the Waza Court in Cracow. The book contains several designs (pp 104-115) for further decorations for King Wladyslaw IV in Cracow, 1649.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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