Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Rupp, Ladislaus, 1793-1854
Title:
Chiese principali d'Europa : dedicate a Sua Santità Leone XII pon. mas.
Published / Created:
Milano : Presso gli editori contr. de' Bossi no. 1755 e Presso Ferd. Artaria negte. di stampe contro. di Sta. Margherita no. 1110 ; [1824-1831]

In Roma : Presso I Fratelli dei Romanis ..., [1824-1831]
Physical Description:
[154] pages in various pagings, [110] leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings), plans ; 61 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 16
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates engraved by Ladislaus Rupp; 7 after V. Bellini, 22 after C. Giglio, 9 each after P.J. Goetghebuer and A. Fumagalli. C. Eckerlin engraved 15 plates and Giglio 4.

Thieme-Becker, Wurzbach (Biographische Lexicon), Nagler (Künstler Lexicon) provide additional subtitle with date 1825, and call the opus Rupp's "Prachtwerk"; issued in Lieferungen.

Title page and dedication are engraved leaves.

Originally issued in 11 parts. The back cover the original wrapper to each part bears a date of publication, from 1824 to 1831.

Includes 22 aquatints.

Plates captioned in Italian and French.

Also issued in French.

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), I, 1843

Includes bibliographical references.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco, with the wrappers of part 1 reused as the front and back cover. Wrappers to the remaining parts bound in. With the bookplate of General Robert Swinburne.
Contents:
Basilica di San Pietro di Roma -- Duomo di Milano -- Il Panteon -- La Basilica di Santo Stefano ... di Vienna -- Santa Maria del Fiore ... di Firenze -- Duomo di Pisa -- S. Giovanni in Laterno -- Metropolitana di Sienna -- Basilica di S. Marco -- Cattedrale d'Anversa -- Cattedrale di Gand -- Basilica di Superga.
Subject Terms:
Church architecture -- Europe. | Church buildings -- Europe -- Designs and plans. | Church architecture. | Church buildings. | Europe. | Swinburne, Robert -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Designs and plans. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824-1831. | Engravings -- 1824-1831.
Contributors:
Bellini, Vittorio, 1798–1860. | Goetghebuer, P. J., 1788–1866. | Fumagalli, A. | Giglio, C., engraver. | Eckerlin, Carl August, 1773–1843, engraver.