RARE PLATE FROM FRANCINI'S LIVRE D'ARCHITECTURE. PL XXXXI
£125
Beautiful plate from a V Rare architectural book ..'text on plate ..'Porta Pia d inventione de Michel Ange'.
'Livre d’architecture contenant plusieurs portiques de differentes inventions, sur les cinq ordres de colomnes' by Alessando Farncini and published by Melchoir Tavernier Paris 1630.
First issue of a series of forty designs for monumental doorways and entrances in a Mannerist style, by a Florentine who had been invited to the French court about 1598 to create grottoes and fountains in the grounds of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and later in Marie de Médicis’ garden of the Luxembourg.
V good condition
code : P1761
Cartographer : ANON
Date : 1631 Paris
Size : 36.5*24.5 cms plate size
availability : Available
Price : £125
