Icones statuarum antiquarum vrbis Romae

Resource Information

The work Icones statuarum antiquarum vrbis Romae represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Icones statuarum antiquarum vrbis Romae

Statement of responsibility

Hieronymi Franzini bibliopolae ad Signum Fontis opera

Title variation

• Icones statuarum antiquarum urbis Romae
• Icones statvarum antiqvarvm vrbis Romae

Creator

• Francini, Girolamo

Contributor

• Francini, Girolamo
• Loménie de Brienne, Etienne Charles de, 1727-1794
• Collegium Parisiense Societatis Jesu
• Méon, Dominique Martin, 1748-1829.
• Beckford, William, 1760-1844

Bookseller

• Francini, Girolamo

Engraver

• Francini, Girolamo

Former owner

• Loménie de Brienne, Etienne Charles de, 1727-1794
• Collegium Parisiense Societatis Jesu
• Méon, Dominique Martin, 1748-1829.
• Beckford, William, 1760-1844

Printer

• Francini, Girolamo

Subject

• Rome (Italy) -- Pictorial works | Early works to 1800
• Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks | Early works to 1800
• Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
• Sculpture -- Italy | Rome -- Pictorial works | Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800
• Guidebooks
• Pictorial works

Language

lat

Summary

One volume of a 4-volume set of pictorial guidebooks to Rome, designed, cut, printed, and sold by Girolamo Francini at the Sign of the Fountain ("Ad Signum Fontis").

Cataloging source

EQO

Citation location within source

• II:1383
• CNCE 19846

Citation source

• Brunet
• EDIT 16

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

The set, containing a total of 383 woodcut illustrations, represents one of the first comprehensive iconographies of Rome, which, as Amy Marshall notes in her exhibit catalog, "Mirabilia urbis Romae: five centuries of guidebooks and views" (Univ. of Toronto Library, 2002), reflected the changes to the city undertaken by Sixtus V in the years 1585-90." The tiny 16mo format was easily carried by travelers, including pilgrims, tourists, diplomats, merchants, architects, and artists. The guidebooks were also used as tourist albums. Upon returning home, the traveler could flip through the volumes, showing friends and family which of the sights he had visited. Because the woodcuts were printed only on the rectos of each page, there was room for the traveler to add his own drawings, notes, or observations. The "Icones statuarum antiquarum vrbis Romae" volume contains 111 woodcut drawings of Roman statuary. See also Ashby, T. "Note sulle varie guide di Roma che contengono xilografie di Girolamo Franzini," Roma I (1923):345-352