Book ID: 99230
Pelissetti, Laura Sabrina (ed.)
I Giardini del re Sole. Architettura e Paesaggio nelle Vedute Seicentesche dei Perelle Collezione Verzelloni, Caravagio. / The Gardens of the Sun King. 2010. 120 pls. 261 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.- Bilingual, in Italian and English.
The book deals with 120 reproductions of etchings devoted to architecture, gardens, urban landscapes, residences and castles published in the seventeenth century in Paris. The collection holds forty tables and signed the famous engraver Gabriel and Adam Perella and pupil Pierre Aveline. The views, dedicated to the post famous sites promoted by the Sun King (Louis XIV), include images from an album kept at the BibliothequeNationale de France Francois Mitterand.