Author:  Milizia, Francesco, 1725-1798
Publisher: Garriga y Aguasvivas (Impremta)
City: Barcelona
Year 1823
Document type:  Treatises
Subject: Art (general)
Library: Ateneu Barcelonès
Abstract: Treatise on Fine Arts, the first translation into Spanish of the work by Francesco Milizia (1725-1798) Dell'Arte di vedere nelle belle arti, Venice 1781. Published by Pedro Serra y Bosch and printed in Barcelona by Impr. Garriga and Aguasvivas in 1823, edition dedicated to the patron of the arts Juan Bautista Erro. Milizia's text is complemented by Tratado de las sombras, y otro de los casetones en todo género de arcos y bóvedas written by Antonio Ginessi, illustrated with six intaglio prints.
The book contains a lithograph by Louis Vuillaume made at the Establecimiento litográfico de la Vda. e Hijos de D. Antonio Brusi. The six chalcographic prints were made by the disciples of Serra y Bosch, Juan Merlo and Antonio Sancho, and were engraved by Domenec Estruc Jordan.
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