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245 0 0 $a Raccolta Delle Più Celebri Pitture Esistenti Nella Città Di Siena Disegnate Ed Incise Da Valenti Artisti Con Illustrazioni
260 # # $a Firenze $b Presso Niccolò Pagni Fo. E Co. $c 1825.
300 # # $a [4], 86 p., [43] pl.; $c 671 mm.
500 # # $a Not all pages are numbered. The work appears to have been published serially, and some copies (including that of the Royal Academy) do not have the full complement of pages and plates.
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Notizie Generali Sulla Libreria Della Metropolitana Di Siena - Descrizione Del Primo (-Decimo) Quadro Della Libreria [with 10 pl.] - Descrizione [of other paintings, with pl.].
508 # # $a The plates carry the names of source-artists, draughtsmen and engravers. The draughtsmen were Luigi Boschi, Francesco Pieraccini or Giovanni Bruni. The engravers were Paolo Lasinio (or Lasinio Figlio), A. Verico, Giuseppe Rossi, Marco Zignani, Filippo Calendi or Massimiliano Capezzuoli.

Several plates carry the publishers' imprint - either that of Niccolo Pagni or that of Luigi Ricceri e Alessandro Bernardini.

Several plates carry their own dedications.
520 2 # $a The title page carries the publication-date of 1825, but the work appears to have been published serially, and some plates carry later publication-dates (in the Royal Academy's copy, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1838).

The plates carry the names of their source-artists and most are captioned. They are on religious subjects. The Royal Academy's copy (lacking the full complement of plates) includes plates showing paintings by Raphael (1 pl.) or Raphael and Pinturicchio (9 pl.: Storia di Pio II), Brescianino (1 pl.: Madonna ed il Bambino), Perugino (1 pl.: Gesù Crocifisso), F. Vanni (1 pl.: Madonna con i santi), Ribera (1 pl.: S. Antonio Abate), Sodoma (4 pl.: Sacra Famiglia; Svenimento di S. Caterina; Adorazione de' Magi; Deposizione della Cruce), Jacopo Pacchiarotto (3 pl.: Natività di Maria; Madonna col Bambino; Ascensione), Alessandro Casolani (1 pl.: Natività di nostro Signore), Matteo di Giovanni (1 pl.: S. Barbara), Fra Bartolommeo (1 pl.: Gesù Crocifisso) and Astolfo Petrazzi (1 pl.: Comunione di S. Girolamo).

The locations of the pictures are given in the captions or in the accompanying letter-press. The first twelve are in the cathedral library; most of the others are stated to be in various Sienese churches.
562 # # $a Imperfect: has only fifty pages (the last numbered '74') and twenty-five plates. On the upper cover is pasted a lebel inscribed in ink in an unknown hand, 'The School of Siena Pinturicchio Pietro Perugino &c. &c.'.
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, red marbled-papered boards; rebacked in 20th century, black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Pitture Di Siena' and 'Il Pergamo Di Santa Croce'. Bound with one other.
600 0 4 $a Raphael
600 1 4 $a Pinturicchio
600 1 4 $a Sodoma
600 1 4 $a Pacchiarotto
600 0 4 $a Jesus Christ
600 0 4 $a Mary
600 0 4 $a Pius II
630 0 0 $a Bible $p N.T. $p Gospels
653 # # $a Saints - Popes - Christian art and symbolism
653 # # $a Paintings, Italian - Italy - Siena - History - 15th century - 16th century - Renaissance
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century
700 1 # $a Pagni $e publisher
700 1 # $a Boschi $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Pieraccini $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Bruni $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Lasinio $e engraver
700 1 # $a Verico $e engraver
700 1 # $a Rossi $e engraver
700 1 # $a Zignani $e engraver
700 1 # $a Calendi $e engraver
700 1 # $a Capezzuoli $e engraver
700 1 # $a Ricceri $e publisher
700 1 # $a Bernardini
700 0 # $a Raphael $e source artist
700 1 # $a Pinturicchio $e source artist
700 1 # $a Sodoma $e source artist
700 1 # $a Pacchiarotto $e source artist
710 2 # $a Ricceri e Bernardini $e publisher