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Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

ca. 1628-1638
17th century
388 x 284 x 7 mm (15.3 x 11.2 x 0.3 in.)

Designed by Polifilo Giancarli, Italian
Etched by Odoardo Fialetti, Italian, (1573–1638)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etchings on lightweight cream paper in bound volume
Print impression quality: Very good
Edition: Polifilo Giancarli was the designer; Odoardo Fialetti was the etcher. Published in Venice (per dealer). Ten etchings in bound volume.
Marks: Inscribed in pencil on inside front cover, top center: “ZANCARLI (Polifilio) / Complete set / B.K. 559 Guilm., p. 313”; inscribed in pencil on inside back cover, top right: “A x 217/ X7X[triangle]”; inscribed in pencil on inside back cover, center right: “coll. compl. / 10 plate (and title)”; each plate inscribed in brown ink (possibly faded from black) in top right margin with numbers beginning with “27” (plate 1) and ending with “36” (plate 10); ; inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, top left corner: “F” in circle; inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, top center: “LGIANCARLI”; inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, top right corner: “B90904-1”; inscribed in plate 1, center: “DISEGNI VARII / DI POLIFILO ZANCARLI / Abenefitio di qual si voglia persono, che / faccia professione, del Disegno. / DEDICATI / All’Iltmo. Signor Pietro Guoro. / da / Tasio Zancarli”; inscribed in plate 2: “Poliphilus Giancarli Inustor” (bottom center), “.F.Incci” (bottom right); inscribed in plate 3: “Polifilo Giancarli Inventor” (bottom left), ".F.Indidebae . Venecis” (bottom right); inscribed in plate 4: “POLIPHILUS GIANCARLI . In.” (bottom left), “.F. Inci” (bottom right); inscribed in plate 5: “Poliphilus Giancarli Inventor” (bottom left), “.F. Incci” (bottom right); inscribed in plate 6: “Polifilio Giancarli In” (bottom left), “.F. Inc” (bottom right, hardly visible); inscribed in plate 7: “Polifilo Giancarli Inv” (bottom left), “F” (bottom right); inscribed in plate 8: “POLIPHILUS . GIANCARLI. In.” (bottom left), “.F. Inci” (bottom right); inscribed in plate 9: “POLIPHILUS . GIANCARLI. IN.” (bottom left), “.F scali” (bottom right, difficult to discern)
Bibliography: Illustrated Bartsch vol. 38, nos. 43–52; see also dealer’s detailed catalog entry (with further references) in DAC object file.
Credit Line: Heinrich Schwarz Fund, 2008
Accession Number: 2008.10.1

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Baroque, designs*, grotesques*, motifs*, ornament*
  • Baroque
  • designs - Specific conceptual schemes for the organization or appearance of graphic works, objects, structures, or systems. For proposed undertakings or creations in general, including works of art or architecture, or for the actual carrying out of such proposals, use "projects." [May 1993 related term added. January 1991 alternate term added.]
  • grotesques - Ornamental motifs including fanciful human and animal forms and floral ornament, based on the decoration of Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome, discovered in 1488.
  • motifs - Use for distinct or separable design elements, usually decorative, whether occurring singly as individual shapes. Distinguish from "patterns (design elements)" which are ornamental designs composed of repeated or combined motifs. [March 1996 scope note changed; related term added. April 1991 lead-in term added.]
  • ornament - Decorative forms that are an integral part of a building or object but are not essential to its structure. Regarding techniques of embellishment in general, use "decoration (process)." [November 1990 descriptor moved.]

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  • object Dimensions: 388 x 284 x 7 mm (15 1/4 x 11 3/16 x 1/4 in.)

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