Pitture A Fresco Di Andrea Del Sarto E D'Altri Celebri Autori Disegnate e Incise a Contorni Da Alessandro Chiari
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/879
Imprint
Firenze: Per Gregorio Chiari e Figli, 1840.
Physical Description
[3] f., 12 pl.; 537 mm.
Contents
[T.p.] - Delle Pitture di Andrea Del Sarto ... / Des Peintures d'André del Sarto ... [by M. Missirini] - Indice delle Pitture 1(-12) - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed with the name of the source-artist (Andrea Del Sarto, Jacopo da Pontormo or B. Poccetti), and as drawn and engraved by A. Chiari. The title-page vignette and tailpiece at the end of the Indice are unsigned.
Summary Note
A publication-date of 1833 is carried by plate 10 (the other plates are undated). The work was first issued in 1834 with an explanatory text by M. Missirini; the present publication reprints the twelve plates of the former issue, but without Missirini's notes and with a new title-page &c. (The work was again reprinted in 1847.)
The plates show ten frescoes by Andrea del Sarto (pl. 1-7, 10-12), one by Jacopo da Pontormo (pl. 8) and one by Bernardino Poccetti (pl. 9) - most painted at the church of the Annunziata, Florence, but the eleventh painted 'nel Monastero di S. Salvi fuori la Porta alla Croce' and the twelfth at the villa at Poggio a Caiano. They all depict events in the life of Christ or other Christian subjects.
Provenance
Ordered to be purchased for the Royal Academy's Library on 31 March 1848 (RA Council Minutes, X, 206). It would appear that an earlier resolution of Council on 18 Feb. 1843, 'that ... Outlines from A. del Sarto be purchased for the Library,' was not acted upon (ibid., IX, 305).
Bible, N.T., Gospels
Christian art and symbolism
Paintings, Italian - Frescoes - Mural painting and decoration - Church decoration and ornament - Churches - Monasteries - Villas - Italy - Tuscany - Florence - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century