Michael Angelus Bonarotus pinxit. Adam Sculptor Mantuanus incidit.
Michelangelo Buonarroti ( Caprese Michelangelo 1475 - Rome 1564)
Category
Books
Date
1612
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3091578
Summary
Bibliographic description
t.-pl., 73 plates . [1] port.. . 4to.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate attached to front free-endpaper inscribed in ink: 'De la reynie'. Inscribed in ink within title page device: 'Io. Bapta de Rubeis F. / in Platea Agon'. Inscribed in ink on engraved title page: C.L. Theroüenne / 1660'. Extra-illustrated with an architectural section attached to verso of the final plate, headed: 'Disegno d'un modello non messe in opera fatto per San Giovanni de i Fiorentini in Romas la reduttione del / quale e di doi palme per oncie la longhezza é di Pal' 9[quarter] et l'altezza di Pal'7 / Michel Angelo Bonarota Inventore'/ [in a different hand] 'Jacobus Mercier Gallus fecit Romae anó 1607'. Entered in 1906 typescript Stourhead Library catalog: p. 379, B.8 [mis-dated '1660'].. Binding: Seventeenth-century polished calf, gold-tooled border, gold-decorated spine, green spine-label. Similar, but not uniform with Theroüenne's copy of Beza's 'Vrais portraits', 1581.
Makers and roles
Michelangelo Buonarroti ( Caprese Michelangelo 1475 - Rome 1564) Adam Mantuanus (fl.1547 - 1587)