L'origine dell’ Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza con una breve descrizione del suo teatro.
Original Wraps
by Bertotti, Scamozzi, Ottavio (1719-1790).
Second edition. Original Wraps.
Bertotti, Scamozzi, Ottavio (1719-1790). L'origine dell' Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza con una breve descrizione del suo teatro. Vicenza: Mosca, 1822. 2nd ed. Inscribed by Edward Gordon Craig (1957), Venice. Octavo. Original stitched wrappers. Sl. Staining. (a) - (b)8; 31, (1) pp. Four folding engraved plates (230 x 360 mm.), some typographic ornaments. Dampstains throughout from fore margin extending into 1" of text. Plates clean.
An architectural essay on the Accademia Olimpica and its theater, with four folding engravings of the theater. The theater of the Accademia Olimpica was begun in 1580 by Andrea Palladio (1508?-1580), who died during construction, and finished by his son Scilla in 1584, while sets were designed by the great Venetian architect Vincenza Scamozzi (1552-1616).
The building was renowned for its beauty, so much so that when Goethe first went to Venice in 1786 it was one of the first places he visited. The four engraved plates depict the theater from different architectural views: the plan, followed by an exterior elevation, a cutaway view, and an interior elevation of the rear of the theater showing the risers and the statue gallery above. All are signed "Ant. Mugnoni" or "A. M." for Antonio Mugnoni, and are dated 1788. This work was first published by G. Rossi at Venice in 1790, next by V. Mosca (or Giuliani??) at Venice in 1804, and later in 1842. It was reprinted in Venice in 1989 by the Accademia Olimpica, with a note by historian Loredana Olivato.
References: Avery Catalogue, p. 904 (1st ed. Only). Not in Cicognara or Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbilbiothek Berlin. (Inventory #: 860)
Bertotti, Scamozzi, Ottavio (1719-1790). L'origine dell' Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza con una breve descrizione del suo teatro. Vicenza: Mosca, 1822. 2nd ed. Inscribed by Edward Gordon Craig (1957), Venice. Octavo. Original stitched wrappers. Sl. Staining. (a) - (b)8; 31, (1) pp. Four folding engraved plates (230 x 360 mm.), some typographic ornaments. Dampstains throughout from fore margin extending into 1" of text. Plates clean.
An architectural essay on the Accademia Olimpica and its theater, with four folding engravings of the theater. The theater of the Accademia Olimpica was begun in 1580 by Andrea Palladio (1508?-1580), who died during construction, and finished by his son Scilla in 1584, while sets were designed by the great Venetian architect Vincenza Scamozzi (1552-1616).
The building was renowned for its beauty, so much so that when Goethe first went to Venice in 1786 it was one of the first places he visited. The four engraved plates depict the theater from different architectural views: the plan, followed by an exterior elevation, a cutaway view, and an interior elevation of the rear of the theater showing the risers and the statue gallery above. All are signed "Ant. Mugnoni" or "A. M." for Antonio Mugnoni, and are dated 1788. This work was first published by G. Rossi at Venice in 1790, next by V. Mosca (or Giuliani??) at Venice in 1804, and later in 1842. It was reprinted in Venice in 1989 by the Accademia Olimpica, with a note by historian Loredana Olivato.
References: Avery Catalogue, p. 904 (1st ed. Only). Not in Cicognara or Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbilbiothek Berlin. (Inventory #: 860)
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