Le pitture di Pellegrino Tibaldi e di Niccolo Abbati esistenti nell'Instituto di Bologna

• • Is soort werk 

    Special collections

Door

• • Heeft auteur 

    Zanotti, Giampietro Cavazzoni

Medewerking van

• • Met medewerking van 

    Crivellari
  • Met medewerking van 

    Moretti

Uitgever

• Uitgave

  Venezia: [presso Giambasta Pasquali], 1756

• Jaar

  • Publicatie jaar 

    1756

Gaat over

• Persoon

  • Als onderwerp 

    Pellegrino Tibaldi
  • Als onderwerp 

    Abate, Nicolò dell'

Type

• Taal

  • Heeft publicatie taal 

    Italiaans

Annotaties / titel notitie's

• Notities

  • Large folio, pp. [6], 46, with engraved allegorical frontispiece, 2 engraved portraits (a splendid Pellegrino Tibaldi and Pope Benedict XIII) by Giuseppe Wagner, 41 engraved plates by Crivellari and G.B. Brustolon (numbered I-XXXI), 12 fine engraved head- and tail-pieces and 7 pictorial engraved initials by the same engravers, some showings internal and external views of the palazzo Poggi, and an engraved vignette on the title-page.
  • First and only edition. Zanotti, art critic and minor painter, gives an interesting historical account of Palazzo Poggi and the fresco cycle painted within by Niccolo dell’Abate and Pellegrino Tibaldi, called Pellegrino of Bologna, in about 1551-54. Both artists were commissioned by Cardinal Giovanni Poggi (1493-1556) to decorate the main rooms in his family palazzo in Bologna. Zanotti also discusses Pellegrino’s cycle of frescoes for the same patron in the Poggi Chapel. At the time of writing the Palazzo Poggi housed the collections of the newly founded Institute of Science. The Institute’s purpose was to combine the scientific knowledge of its time under one roof; there was a scientific instrument collection, laboratories, and an astronomical observatory. Displayed in the rooms of the piano nobile which was adorned with the fresco cycle of Ulysses by Pellegrino was the Wunderkammer of Ferdinando Cospi (1606-1686) (incorporating the cabinet of Ulisse Aldrovandini) which had been transferred to the Institute in 1742. Cospi had donated his collection to the city of Bologna, and until 1742 it had been stored in the Palazzo Publico. This is a splendidly printed and luxuriously produced book which does full justice to the splendid series of frescoes and is also the earliest monograph on the Palazzo Poggi, one of the grander palazzi in Bologna, which now houses a museum and is the seat of Bologna University.
  • Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-1596) was "among most radically inventive and influential mannerist architects practicing in northern Italy." (MacMillan, Encyclopedia of Architects, IV, 214). The prese work illustrates, in highly dramatic engravings, his frescos in several buildings in Bologna. The frontispiece is an allegorical figure of Bologna, fetching, idealized female beauty, engraved by Crivellari after Moretti. The fine title vignette enframes a distant view of Bologna. The headpieces. tailpieces and initials continue the theme of "Bologna" showing exterior and interior views of buildings by Tibaldi.

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