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001 $ 04/3863
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a ita
044 # # $a it
245 0 0 $a Uomini Celebri Dipinti A Buon Fresco Da Andrea Dal Castagno Nella Villa Già Pandolfini Disegnati Sul Posto Ed Incisi All'Acquaforte In Nove Tavole Da Alessandro Chiari Pittore.
260 # # $a Firenze $b Stabilimento Di Ferdinando Chiari $c [18--].
300 # # $a [4] p., [9] pl.; $c 501 mm.
500 # # $a Each plate is pasted in.
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - [Preface, 'Andrea Dal Castagno fiorì ...'] - Elenco Delle Incisioni - [Plates].
508 # # $a No plate is signed.
510 0 # $a J.M. Dunn, 'Andrea del Castagno's famous women: one sibyl and two queens', in Z. Kstgesch. 58/3 (1995), p. 359-80.
520 2 # $a The work describes the frescoes of famous men and women commissioned from Andrea del Castagno by Filippo Carducci for the Villa Carducci at Legnaia, Florence; which Castagno made between 1449 and 1451. The paintings were removed in 1850 and are now in the Uffizi gallery, Florence.

The plates are outline drawings, and carry Latin captions naming the persons shown: three Florentine commanders (Filippo Ispano degli Scolari, Farinata degli Uberti, Nicolao Acciaioli), three women (the Cumaean Sibyl, Queen Esther, Queen Tomiris) and three Italian poets (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio).
561 # # $a 2 December 1856: 'Ordered to purchase for the Library, ... Andrea dal Castagno Uomini Celebri price 16/- ...' (RA Council Minutes, XI, 183).
563 # # $a 19th-century cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Castagno Uomini Celebri'.
600 1 4 $a Castagno
653 # # $a Celebrities - Queens
653 # # $a Celebrities - Commanders - Poets - Italy
653 # # $a Frescoes - Paintings, European - Paintings, Italian - Italy - Florence - History - 15th century - Renaissance
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - 19th century
700 1 # $a Castagno $e source artist
700 1 # $a Chiari $e publisher
700 1 # $a Chiari $e draughtsman $e engraver