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Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne, ou, Recueïl des plus beaux morceaux de l'antiquité romaine qui existent encore / dessinés par Monsieur Barbault peintre ancien pensionnarire du Roy a Rome et gravés en 128 planches avec leur explication.
Author
Barbault, Jean, approximately 1705-1766
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Book
Language
French
Published/Created
A Rome : Chez Bouchard & Gravier Libraries françois rüe du Cours Près de Saint Marcel ... de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, MDCCLXI [1761]
Description
viii, 90 p. illus., 73 pl. (incl. plans) 55 cm.
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Special Collections - Rare Books
N5760 .B3e Oversize
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Subject(s)
Art, Roman
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Early works to 1800
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Architecture, Roman
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Italy
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Rome
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Early works to 1800
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Architecture
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Italy
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Rome
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Early works to 1800
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Monuments
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Italy
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Rome
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Historic buildings
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Italy
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Rome
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Early works to 1800
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Rome
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Antiquities
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Early works to 1800
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Artist
Bufalini, Leonardo, active 16th century
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Nolli, Carlo, -approximately 1770
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Barbault, Jean, approximately 1705-1766
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Engraver
Barbault, Jean, approximately 1705-1766
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Montaigu, Domenico, active 18th century
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Bouchard, Giuseppe, active 1765-1787
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Freicenet, active 18th century
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Bookseller
Bouchard, Giovanni
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Gravier, Jean, 1727?-1776
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Printer
Komarek, Jean Jacques, active 18th century
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Summary note
Engravings of the antiquities of Rome by the French artist Jean Barbault. The collection is divided into two parts: the first is about architecture; the second deals with sculpture. The architectural section is organized according to building types, such as temples, triumphal arches, theaters, columns and obelisks, baths and aqueducts, and tombs and altars. When Barbault arrived in Rome in 1747, he quickly became involved with the circle of Piranesi, collaborating with Piranesi on the "Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna," and contributing fourteen views for Piranesi's "Antichità romane." The relationship of the two artists, as both collaborators and rivals, raises vivid questions of influence and plagiarism. In Giovanni Bouchard they shared a publisher as well. According to Martha Pollak in "The Mark J. Millard architectural collection," Barbault's views were notable for their presentation and framing which made them "tactile and appealing." His method of inscribing sculptural remains on larger, irregularly shaped stone fragments, was also employed by Piranesi, and was "extremely effective in suggesting loss and the melancholy passage of time that inevitably destroys human work." Barbault's accompanying text in French contains many references to historians of Rome such as Pliny the Elder, Alessandro Donati, Bernard de Montfaucon, Famiano Nardini, Scipione Maffei, and Carlo Fontana.
Notes
Illustrations printed from small plates.
Given to Princeton University library in memory of David Aiken Reed, Class of 1900.
Stamp of Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt on front pastedown.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
References
Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara 3592
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Other title(s)
Recueïl des plus beaux morceaux de l'antiquité romaine qui existent encore
Half title
Monuments de Rome ancienne
LCCN
10003924
OCLC
3164298
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