May 22, 2003 - Sale 1972

Sale 1972 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BAROQUE INFLUENCE (ARCHITECTURE.) Pozzo, Andrea. Perspectivae Pictorum atque Architectorum. Latin and German text. 223 engraved plates, plus titles, engraved by Joanne Boxbarth (Georg Conrad Bodenehr). 2 volumes. Oblong folios, 19th century 1/4 vellum over decorated boards; title of Volume 2 and several leaves reinforced along edges, occasional small repairs, scattered light dampstaining to bottom portion of leaves in middle section of Volume 2, few margins trimmed close to image, pages numbered in pencil. Mixed editions. Augusburg, 1719-1711

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"Pozzo's dramatic use of perspective was perhaps the most important single influence in the spread of high baroque decoration outside Italy"--Weinreb 22: 37.