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Le pitture di Bologna : che nelle pretesa, e rimostrata fin' ora da altri maggiore antichità, e impareggiabile eccellenza nella pittura, con manifesta evidenza di fatto, rendono il passeggiere disingannato, ed istrutto ; dell' Ascoso accademico gelato

Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, conte, 1616-1693, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL), John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL) · 1732 · Bologna : Nella stamperia de Longhi · 6 pictures

A guidebook to the paintings of Bologna's churches and public buildings, written by Carlo Cesare Malvasia under the pen name "l'Ascoso accademico gelato" and reprinted in Bologna by the Longhi press in 1732 for visitors and connoisseurs. Its woodcuts are typographic furniture: symmetrical foliate headpieces and tailpieces of scrolling acanthus, and initial capitals set in vine-filled borders.

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