Villa Pamphilia eiusque palatium, cum suis prospectibus, statuae, fontes, vivaria, theatra, areolae, plantarum, viarumque ordines, cum eiusdem villae absoluta delineatione.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrière, Dominique, approximately 1618-1678.

Contributor:

Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640-1678.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Villa Doria Pamphili (Rome, Italy)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

Villa Doria Pamphili (Rome, Italy).

Villa Doria Pamphili (Rome, Italy)--Early works to 1800.

Villa Doria Pamphilj (Rome, Italy : Park)--Early works to 1800.

Sculpture, Classical--Italy--Rome--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

Sculpture, Classical.

Fountains--Italy--Rome--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

Fountains.

Casino del bel respiro (Rome, Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Antiquities.

Rome (Italy).

Italy--Rome.

Genre:

Early works.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

2 pages 82 plates (some folded) 46 cm

Place of Publication:

Romae, Io. Iocabi de Rubeis, S.D.

Notes:

: The Villa Doria-Pamphili at Rome was built during the 1640s to the design of Alessandro Algardi, and was completed around 1650 under the supervision of G.F. Grimaldi, who may also have laid out the gardens. It was here that Prince Camillo Pamphili (d. 1666) displayed his large collection of antique statues and busts, arranged on three specially-designed terraces (for further details of the Villa see Fiorenzo Catalli et al., Villa Pamphilj ([Roma]: Dipartimento per l'Informazione e l'Editoria, 1992)). Shortly after the collection was installed at the Villa, Pamphili employed Dominique Barrière (q.v.) and Carlo Orlandi (apparently an assistant or student) to draw and engrave plates of some of the finest statues, and views of the Villa itself. Payments to these two artists are recorded between April 1652 and 1657, and it is likely that the resulting coppers form the heart of the present work (see J{OCLCbr94}rg Garms (ed.), Quellen aus dem Archiv Doria-Pamphili zur Kunsttätigkeit in Rom unter Innocenz X (Rome and Vienna: Osterreichisches Kulturinstitut, 1972), items 263, 272, 284, 298, 381, 591 and 595-597). After Camillo Pamphili's death in July 1666, the plates passed to his son Giambattista, who was probably responsible for the agreement with G.G. de' Rossi to prepare the present volume, which is dedicated to Giambattista. In addition to the unsigned plates by Barrière and Orlandi, de' Rossi included four coppers (plates [7] and [9-11]) which had been prepared for the third part of G.B. Falda's Le fontane di Roma (No. 1014, plates 26, 24, 25 and 23 respectively). He also added a portrait of Pamphili, and may have prepared further engravings of the statues, since it is not certain how many of these were engraved during the 1650s. However, the chances are that the majority of the views of the Villa and its statuary can be dated to this earlier period, as they are in a uniform style and appear to be lettered in the same 'hand' (probably that of Orlandi).!! %tThe titlepage of de' Rossi's Villa Pamphilia is undated, probably with the explicit intention of allowing reprints and reissues over a prolonged period, while avoiding the appearance of an outdated or untopical collection. The precise date of first publication remains unknown, but it can be fixed with some certainty between 1666 and 1677. The latter date is derived from the inclusion of the work in G.G. de' Rossi's catalogue of this year, which lists 'Statue, e vedute della Villa Pamphilia, intagliate all'acqua forte da Domenico Barriere, libro in 84. fogli, e mezzo fogli imperiali' (see Rossi (1677), p.13). The terminus a quo of 1666 is supplied by the date at which Giambattista Pamphili, the dedicatee, inherited the Villa. Further evidence comes from the fact that the work includes four plates of fountains by Falda, which were drawn and etched before his death in 1678 for inclusion in the third part of Le fontane di Roma (see No. 1014). The first and second parts of this work were probably prepared and published around 1675 and 1676, so the natural assumption is that the etchings for part 3 would have been made at around the same period. Thus, it seems likely that the Villa Pamphilia was first issued by de' Rossi in 1675 or 1676, including the plates for the third part of Le fontane di Roma, which the publisher presumably knew would not be completed as planned by the ailing Falda (this part was ultimately completed by G.F. Venturini and published around 1684; see No. 1014).!! %tPlate [5] in the present collection was copied for Sandrart's edition of Falda's Le fontane di Roma (1685; see 1015 and 1016), and [3] and [6] were copied for his Romae antiquae et novae theatrum (1684; No. 2894). The work was available until at least 1689, when it was again listed in a de' Rossi catalogue (see Rossi (1689), p.23), and probably remained in; print until de' Rossi's death in 1691. It appears that the number and order of the plates varied slightly over the years, although the 1689 catalogue also calls for '84. fogli'. A copy at the New York Botanical Garden Library has a total of 93 plates, including four additional views of statuary (see RLIN). The CCA possesses three copies, including totals of 83, 84 and 86 plates respectively; among the additional etchings is a plan of the Villa by Falda (no doubt a reprint of plate 21 from his Li giardini di Roma (see No. 1017)), and the plates from Le fontane di Roma have been given their later numbers for inclusion in the latter work. The Cicognara copy includes 87 plates. Copies at the University of Michigan and Yale, on the other hand, have 83 plates, but include the plan which is absent from the BAL copy. Other copies, including that at the University of Chicago, have only 82 plates. A copy sold by Ben Weinreb in 1967 had a total of 84 plates (see Weinreb 23:70), while that described by the Berlin Kat. was apparently identical to the BAL copy, save that plate [8] was bound before the title-leaf (see Berlin Kat. 3491).--British Architectural Library.

A woodcut head-piece, ornament and nine-line initial appear on page [3].

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Sandra and Hyman Myers.

OCLC:

4236497

Bound With:

5 pl. engraved by G.B. Falda.