Author: BARTOLI (Pietro Santi):
Title: Le Antiche Lucerne Sepolcrali Figurate Raccolte dalle Cave sotterranee, e Grotte di Roma, nelle quli si contengono molte erudite Memorie. Disegnate, ed intagliate nelle loro orme da Pietro Sanit Bartoli E che ora sona tra le Stampe di Domenico de Rossi Erede di Gio. Giacomo de Rossi a S. Maria della Pace, con Privilegio del Sommon Pontefice. Divise in tre Parti con l'Osservazioni di Gio Pietro Bellori.
Description: In Roma [Nella stampa di D. de Rossi], 1704. Folio, 325 x 217 mms., pp. [iv], 16, 15 [16 blank], 12, engraved title, 116 plates, with engraved title-page for each part, contemporary vellum, olive morocco label; front hinge cracked, few worm holes in spine, top and base of spine slightly defective, with an 1829 Bologna inscription (name resisting transcription) on the top margin of the title-page. The Italian engraver Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635 - 1700) trained as a painter, but turned his attention to engraving and was an engraver for most of his life. The volume contains splendid and intricate engravings of the sepulchral lamps in the underground caves of Rome, as well as information about various rites connected with the lamps. This was one of the last works that the painter and biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - 1696) published, and his rather short commentaries on each of the engravings don't seem to do them justice. Bartoli's work was first published in Rome, with a second edition published in Berlin in 1702.

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