Pl. 98 Antique Print of 16th-17thCentury Italian Decorations by Racinet

Antique print titled '16th Century - XVIc Siècle - XVILes Jahrhundert'. Chromolithograph of Italian manuscripts decorations second half of the 16th century ornaments. This print orig...

Antique print titled 'Europa XVI, XVIIth Cent - Europe XVIe, XVIIe Siecle - Europa XVIt, XVIItes Jahr'. Chromolithograph of European 16th-17th century carriage. This print originates...

A beautiful pair of burin engravings depicting "Saint Bernardo degli Uberti" and "Saint Hilary of Poitiers" two of the patron saints of the city included in the base of the cupola ( dome ) of Parma cathedral frescoed by Antonio Allegri known as Correggio (Correggio, August 1489-Correggio 5 March 1534) between 1524 and 1530. Admirable work by the great master in which his genius as a forerunner of the Baroque is fully seen. In 1642 Giovanni Battista Vanni etched a series of fifteen plates from Correggio's frescoes. Giovanni Battista Vanni was born in Pisa around 1599; he studied successively under Jacopo da Empoli, Aurelio Lomi, and Matteo Rosselli, and then became a disciple of Cristofano Allori. He is better known as an engraver than as a painter. From 1624 to 1632, he lived in Rome, then returning to Florence after visiting Venice. In addition to the series of prints...

Wonderful set of 16 botanical prints Lithographs after the original botanical drawings by Hooker. Original color Published, circa 1850 Unframed. The measurement given is for one...