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Giardini, Joannes (Giovanni)

PROMPTUARIUM ARTIS ARGENTARIÆ EX QUO, CENTUM EXQUISITO STUDIO INVENTIS, DELINEATIS, AC IN ÆRE INCISIS TABULIS PROPOSITIS, ELEGANTISSIMÆ, AC INNUMERÆ EDUCI POSSUNT NOVISIMMÆ IDEÆ AD CUJUSCUMQUE GENERIS VASA ARGENTEA, AC AUREA INVENIENDA, AC CONFICIENDA ... AC IN DUAS PARTES DISTRIBUIT. 2 vols.

Antikvariat Antiqua
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Romae, Fausto Amideo, 1750. 39x25. Two title leaves + 100 engraved plates. Bound in one volume, contemporary half calf, the boards rubbed especially towards extremities, with some loss of the marbled paper. The free endpapers slightly stained, and the front one slightly torn. Small repaired tear in bottom margin of the first title leaf. Very fine, clean plates, with occasional light foxing in margins not affecting the engravings, which are all in good vigorous imprints.

Second issue of the 18th century's finest published collection of secular and eccesiastical designs for silversmiths and goldsmiths, printed from the original copper plates used for the first edition issued in Prague in 1714. Giovanni Giardini (1646-1721) was a draughtsman, silversmith, gem-carver and bronze caster in Rome. After an apprenticeship to the silversmith Marco Gamberucci, he became qualified as a master silversmith and rapidly achieved a position of prestige in the silversmiths' guild. In 1698, he was named bronze-founder for the Papacy, completing important commissions, objects which are today in St. Peter's in Rome as well as in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna. Only a few of his works in silver have survived, most of them church furnishings that escaped the depredations of the Napoleonic army. These show a strong sense of form and a technical mastery that earned him important commissions from the Papal court. When the body of Queen Christina of Sweden was exhumed in 1965 in St Peter's, a set of pieces by Giardini was found: the Queen's silver sceptre, crown and funerary mask of 1689. Giardini's reputation, however, is based on his pattern-book designs for sacred and secular objects published in Prague in 1714 as 'Disegni diversi' and reprinted in Rome in 1750 with the title 'Promptuarium artis argentariae'. The objects are divided into different types, with varied and original decorative designs. They reflect the influence of late Baroque sculpture and architecture, especially the work of Bernini and Francesco Borromini, from which they derive their long curving lines and their repertory of naturalistic ornament. Although many of Giardini's patterns represent pure caprices that would be difficult to execute in precious metal, they were an important source of inspiration for Roman artistic silver production throughout the eighteenth century, and they continued to be influential into the nineteenth.
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