Fontes Ambrosiani in Lucem Editi Cura et Studio Bibliothecae Ambrosianae. XXIX: Cento Tavolo del Codice Resta. Facsimile of the 17th century anthology of Italian hand drawings. Milan, 1955. with 100 color plates. Folio. Illustr. ill. (Stuff bumped).
One of 2030 numbered copies.- The 'Codex Resta' from the Ambrosiana Library is an anthology of 14th-18th century Italian hand drawings, richly annotated with biographical and other notes by the collector and critic Sabastiano Resta (1635-1714). This magnificent facsimile includes the 100 most important leaves of the codex. 'The hundred plates ... Set forth the taste and inclination in the 17th century of those collectors who then inspired the creation of public art collections ... In the annotations or digressions of Father Resta ... we find various art or environmental news of his epoch ... [he] spreads ... himself sometimes also on the characters of the painters, the nature of the derivations and influences, and is not afraid of polemics ...' (from the introduction).
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