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La pratica di prospettiva (The Practice of Perspective)
Illustrated by: Lorenzo Sirigatti (Italian, 16th century)
Author: Lorenzo Sirigatti (Italian, 16th century)
Printer: Girolamo de' Franceschi (Italian, 16th century)
Author: Lorenzo Sirigatti (Italian, 16th century)
Printer: Girolamo de' Franceschi (Italian, 16th century)
1596
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with engraved title and 65 engravings
Dimensions
Overall: 42.3 x 27.5 x 3 cm (16 5/8 x 10 13/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Francis Jay Underhill Fund
Accession Number54.1427.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Girolamo Franceschi, 1596
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet VI, 8424; Mortimer, Italian, 479; Berlin 4700
Description(Venice: Girolamo Franceschi, 1596) Folio; 70 leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped half brown calf, spotted paper boards.
Illustrations of perspective diagrams and renderings of objects and architectural details.
BOUND with Vignola, 1602 (54.1427.2).
Illustrations of perspective diagrams and renderings of objects and architectural details.
BOUND with Vignola, 1602 (54.1427.2).
ProvenanceOld shelf marks on title of Sirigatti; Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, from whom purchased by MFA, December 9, 1954.