[GIUSTINIANI, Vincenzo]. Joachim von SANDRART - Lot 22

[GIUSTINIANI, Vincenzo]. Joachim von SANDRART Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani [Rome], [1631]. THE IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF THE GIUSTINIANI FAMILY, PATRONS OF CARAVAGGIO, PRESENTED IN A WORK ENTIRELY SUPERVISED BY SANDRART. 2 volumes folio (517 x 354mm) ILLUSTRATION: (I): 153 plates including a title-frontispiece engraved by Theodore Matham after François du Quesnoy; (II): 169 plates including 38 double plates and 3 double folding plates, mitered, engraved by C. Mellan, P. de Balliu, R. Persyn, C. Bloemaert, M. Natalis, I. Comin, C. Audran, T. Matham, F. Greuter and Valerianus Regnartius after C. Mellan, Anna M. Vaiani, J. de Pape, I. Sandrart, I. Thysidius Guidus, Jean Baptiste Ruggerius, I. Lanfranco, François Duquesnoy, F. Perrier, I. A. Podesta, François Bonamicius Lucen and Carol. Max. The second volume includes at the end 8 plates engraved by Cornelius Bloemaert depicting images of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, which are missing from some copies, including the one in the BnF 18th-century BINDING. Marbled calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges over marbling. PROVENANCE : old marks in ink Hinges rubbed. Angular spotting on a few leaves in Volume II. The banker Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564-1637) and his brother Cardinal Benedetto (1554-1621), patrons of Caravaggio, were among the most important Roman collectors of antique sculptures, paintings and friezes. This work depicts their palace in Rome, where the collection was kept. The preparation of this fully engraved work was supervised by Joachim von Sandrart (author of L'Academia todesca della architectura), who stayed at the Palazzo Giustiniani in the 1630's. The printing date of the work - absent from the title page - is deduced from that inscribed on the portrait of Vincenzo Giustiniani (Vol. I. pl. 2). BIBLIOGRAPHY : F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique: the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900, 1982 -- Catalogue of the exhibition I Giustiniani e l'antico, Rome, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, 2001