Egyptian and Roman Antiquities, and Renaissance Decorative Arts

By (author) Elena Vaiani By (author) Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino By (author) Helen Whitehouse

Book cover: Egyptian and Roman Antiquities, and Renaissance Decorative Arts

Extent: 957, 957 pages

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Subjects: Art & Art History, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture

Series volume number: 8

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2018)

ISBN: 9781909400924

Price: $119.00

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This catalogue includes almost 400 drawings of mainly small antiquities such as vases, lamps, mirrors, tripods, bells, armor, weights, measures, musical instruments, mirrors, brooches and jewelry, as well as designs for Renaissance and seventeenth-century vases, candelabra, princely gold and silver tableware. Amongst the antiquities


This catalogue includes almost 400 drawings of mainly small antiquities such as vases, lamps, mirrors, tripods, bells, armour, weights, measures, musical instruments, mirrors, brooches and jewellery, as well as designs for Renaissance and seventeenth-century vases, candelabra, princely gold and silver tableware. Amongst the antiquities are a distinct group of Egyptian artefacts and some of the earliest known records of Greek vases, together with countless objects of everyday life. Amongst the modern designs are works by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian artists such as Luzio Luzzi, Giovanni Battista Montano, Giovanni Angelo Canini, Lelio Orsi and others.

  • By (author) Elena Vaiani
  • By (author) Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodino
  • By (author) Helen Whitehouse