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Giovanni Battista Montano (1534-1621), Volume of drawings, frontispiece insc: I sette libri/della architettura/di Giovan. Batista Montani/recolte e disignate dal anti/quita di Roma da me con ognia/diligenza non piu viste in luce/curiosi a ognia be1 ingenio/dital sienza e virtu; self portrait of Montano (2) reproduced, along with many of the drawings, in Book I of Li Cinque Libri di architettura di Giovanni Battista Montani Milanese, published by G. J. de Rossi, Rome 1684; No 3 used as frontispiece of Book III of same. Spine insc: Architettu/del/Montani. Bound in vellum (425 x 280)
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Reference number
Vol 125
Purpose
Giovanni Battista Montano (1534-1621), Volume of drawings, frontispiece insc: I sette libri/della architettura/di Giovan. Batista Montani/recolte e disignate dal anti/quita di Roma da me con ognia/diligenza non piu viste in luce/curiosi a ognia be1 ingenio/dital sienza e virtu; self portrait of Montano (2) reproduced, along with many of the drawings, in Book I of Li Cinque Libri di architettura di Giovanni Battista Montani Milanese, published by G. J. de Rossi, Rome 1684; No 3 used as frontispiece of Book III of same. Spine insc: Architettu/del/Montani. Bound in vellum (425 x 280)
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, frontispiece insc: I sette libri/della architettura/di Giovan. Batista Montani/recolte e disignate dal anti/quita di Roma da me con ognia/diligenza non piu viste in luce/curiosi a ognia be1 ingenio/dital sienza e virtu. Spine insc: Architettu/del/Montani
Medium and dimensions
Bound in vellum (425 x 280)
Hand
Giovanni Battista Montano (1534 - 1621)
Notes
For a full catalogue entry see Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, London 1998, Vol 2 pp 556-624
This volume together with Volumes 123, 124 and the Codex Coner (Vol 115) formed part of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum. James Adam negotiated the sale of the Cassiano material from Cardinal Albani's Library on behalf of George III. Most of the collection entered the Royal Library Windsor. Sir John Soane acquired the Montano volumes at the Robert Adam sale in May 1818. The vellum bindings and green pigmentation on the edges of the folios are characteristic of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museum. Folio 1 bears the wax impression of the seal with the arms of Anna Theresa Benzoni, the wife of Gabriele dal Pozzo, Cassiano's nephew.
This volume together with Volumes 123, 124 and the Codex Coner (Vol 115) formed part of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum. James Adam negotiated the sale of the Cassiano material from Cardinal Albani's Library on behalf of George III. Most of the collection entered the Royal Library Windsor. Sir John Soane acquired the Montano volumes at the Robert Adam sale in May 1818. The vellum bindings and green pigmentation on the edges of the folios are characteristic of Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museum. Folio 1 bears the wax impression of the seal with the arms of Anna Theresa Benzoni, the wife of Gabriele dal Pozzo, Cassiano's nephew.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Order: Myth, Meaning and Beauty in Architecture, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 October 2009 - 30 January 2010; Reading Museum, 22 January - 27 March 2011
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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