Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi Cum Ipsarum Monocromatibus Et Ornamentis Romæ In Aedibus Sereniss. Ducis Parmensis Ab Annibale Carraccio Aeternitati Pictae. A Petro Aquila Delineatæ Incisæ.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/865
Imprint
Io. Iacobus. de Rubeis cura, sumptibus, ac typis editæ, Romæ ad Templ. S. Mariæ de Pace cù Priv. S. Pont.: [ca. 1677?]
Physical Description
13 pl.; 425×547 mm. (Oblong.)
General Note
The set of plates was earlier issued without numbers.
Contents
[T.pl.] - [Pl. 2-13].
Responsibility Note
Plates 2-13 are all signed as painted by Annibal Carraccius and drawn and engraved by Petrus Aquila.
Each carries the publisher's imprint of 'Io. Iacob. de Rubeis' (i.e. Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi).
The second plate carries a dedication of the whole series ('Heroicae Virtutis Imagines') from the publisher to Cardinal César D'Estrées.
References
Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori [exhibition catalogue] (Rome, 1968), p.73-80.
J.R. Martin, 'Immagini della virtù: the paintings of the Camerino Farnese', in A. Bull., 38 (1956), p.91-112.
Summary Note
No date of publication is given on the title-plate or elsewhere; but the set is mentioned in the Indice De Rossi of 1677.
The plates show the frescoes painted by Annibale Carracci in 1596-7 for Cardinal Odoardo Farnese on the ceiling of the Camerino Farnese in the Farnese Palace, Rome. They depict the achievements of Hercules and other allegoric scenes.
Provenance
Prince Hoare Bequest (1835).
Binding Note
18th-century calf; rebacked in 20th century, brown morocco spine-labels lettered 'Annibale Caracci. L'Enea Vagante Inc Mitelli Romæ 166' and 'Imagines Farnesia Cubiculi Ab Annibale Carracci Romæ N.D.' Bound with one other.