Memorie Storiche Su La Vita, Gli Studi, E Le Opere Di Lionardo Da Vinci scritte Da Carlo Amoretti Bibliotecario Nell'Ambrosiana Di Milano Membro Dell'Istituto Nazionale, Della Società Italiana Delle Scienze, Dell'Accad. Si Sc. E B.L. Di Torino ec.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/3236

Uniform Title

[Trattato della pittura., 1804.]

Imprint

[Milano: , 1804]

Physical Description

p. [7-]207, [1], frontis. (port.), pl. 1-3; 239 mm. (Quarto.)

Contents

[Frontis., t.p.] - [Text] - Indice Delle Cose Più Notabili - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

The frontispiece portrait of Leonardo is signed as engraved by Gio. Baggi (or Boggi?). The three plates are unsigned.

References

M. Guerrini, Biblioteca Leonardiana 1493-1989 (1991).
Farago, Claire (Ed), Re-Reading Leonard: the treatise on painting across Europe, 1550-1900. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. ISBN: 9780754665328

Summary Note

The frontispiece is a portrait of Leonardo. Plates I-III show drawings by Leonardo - I. a human head in profile, with notes; II. elevation of a building with a columned portico, human figures, and the head of a dog; III. human figures, arm-bones, and a horse.

Copy Note

Appears defective, lacking p.1-6. According to the Catalogue of the British Library the present work was part of the edition of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura published in Milan in 1804 by the 'Società Tip. de' Classici Italiani'. A separate edition of Amoretti's Memorie was also published in Milan in 1804 (having 199 pages).

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, brown papered boards; gilt-decorated spine, black morocco spine-label lettered 'Amoretti Vita &C Lionardo Da Vinci', spine lettered 'R.A.'

Name as Subject

Subject

Painters - Draughtsmen - Italy - History - 15th century - 16th century - Renaissance
Art history - Biography - Italy - 19th century

Contributors