Raccolta e parallelo delle fabbriche classiche [...] -
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand () taught architectural composition at the École centrale des travaux publics, then École Politecnique, from to . Recueil et parallèle des édi?ces de tout genre, anciens et modernes: remarquables par leur beauté, par leur grandeur, ou par leur singularité, et dessinés sur une même échelle (), impr. de Gillé ?ls, also known as the Grand Durand precedes the better known Précis des leçons d'architecture données à l'École royale polytechnique (2 vol., ) pub. à compte d'auteur, known as the Petit Durand and Nouveau précis des leçons d'architecture: données à l'École impériale polytechnique (), éd. Fantin.La Raccolta e parallelo delle fabbriche classiche di tutti i tempi d’ogni popolo e di ciascun stile di J.N.L. Durand con l’aggiunta di altre 300 e più fabbriche e monumenti d’ogni genere antichi e moderni nonché della storia generale dell’architettura di J.G. Legrand,opera pubblicata per cura de’ professori della I. R. Accademia di Belle Arti. Venezia presso Giuseppe Antonelli , è stata ?nora poco studiata. Published in instalments in folio, it is not just a translation of the famous Recueil et parallèle, which traces a first historical gallery of universal architecture buildings with images of building types classified by function and plan and anticipates its much more famous composition lessons at the École Polithecnique, based not on real cases but on abstract projects, almost double the original content with over three hundred new factories, mainly Venetian, by Palladio, Sansovino, Scamozzi, Lombardo, Guglielmo Bergamasco (de Grigis), da Ponte, Scarpagnino, Quarenghi, Calderari, Valadier, Selva and contemporary projects of Italian, French and German architects. This historical gallery of examples is a precursor of composition didactics. For more information see also https://youtu.be/fRDGyXb_UwAThe plates are finely engraved on copper, many on double page, with thousands of very fine incisions: facades, plans, elevations, details. Important collection, first Italian edition of this famous work; bilingual text in Italian and French. Cfr. Brunet, II/904, Graesse II/450. Copy with wide margins (insignificant sporadic yellowing on the outer edges), beautiful white paper. Impressive volume, coeval full green leather binding, gold title and decorations, headband a little worn but overall in excellent condition. Rare to find in this optimal condition.The original dossiers have been collected in recent times in a volume with text by Legrand and in two folders covered with canvas with golden engraved leather spines containing one the tables of buildings, and the other plates of architectural details and ornaments of the same buildings. Deckle edges. Read More