Freggi dell'architettura
By: da Agostino Mitelli pittore
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1645
Place of publication: In Bologna
Language: ita
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Architecture; Details; Early works to 1800; Architectural Decoration and ornament
Other titles: Freggi dell'architettvra; Fregi dell'architettura
Notes: Contains 48 friezes after drawings by Mitelli of pilaster decoations on the portal of the Church of S. Bartolomeo di Porta Ravegnana in Bologna, the work of Andrea Marchesi da Formigine, the architect, and others.

Engraved t.p.and dedicaton included in foliation.

Later published by G.G. de Rossi in Rome.

Several pilasters shown bear a scroll: Io. Gozadinus archid Boñ.et huius monast comen. (Giovanni Gozzadini, a benefactor).

Two vertical plates to a leaf following t.p. and dedication leaf (1-48, with only even-numbered plates numbered) to a leaf following. Plate 47 bears cartouche: Agost. Mitelli pittore.

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 564, 565

Pinacoteca naz. (Bologna, Italy). Cat. gen. : incisori bolognesi, appendice, 713-738

Bookplate: Ex Libris Edmond Fatio Geneve; bookplate: Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow.

Extra-illustrated with an etched(?) portrait of Mitelli, with a small copy on the facing page; a reverse copy of the penultimate plate loosely inserted at time of cataloging, removed to PG & A Curatorial File.

Bound in late 19th-cent.(?) marbled boards, backed with brown leather; in CMI case.