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Il conte Giacomo Carrara e la sua galleria : secondo il catalogo del 1796

Pinetti, Angelo · 1922 · Bergamo : Instituto italiano d'arti grafiche · 27 pictures

An Italian art-historical monograph by Angelo Pinetti, published in Bergamo in 1922, reconstructing Count Giacomo Carrara's picture gallery from the 1796 catalogue for scholars and collectors of the Accademia Carrara. The 27 plates are coarse halftone reproductions of Renaissance and Baroque paintings — altarpieces with saints kneeling below cloud-borne Madonnas, crowded classical scenes under heavy architecture, and close-cropped portraits — usable as grainy, high-contrast source material and for ornamental plate borders.

Carrara, Giacomo, conte, 1714-1796 · Accademia Carrara · Art museums · Art

Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0