Descripción

Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000
The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History. 3. 1
- copertina rigida in tela con sovracopertina, formato cm 22 x 29, pag. 424
- pari al nuovo

This new Catalogue Raisonne, Part III in the series on Natural History, is based on the collection originally formed by Prince Federico Cesi in the early 17th century and later acquired by Cassiano. These drawings constitute the first truly scientific study of fossilized woods and are executed with such finesse, skill and detail that they will be of immense interest both to art-historians and to historians of science. The drawings, the majority of which have remained unstudied and unpublished until now, include specimens of wood and animal fossils, ammonites and concretions, pyrits and baked clays, as well as a series of field drawings giving the sites where these specimens were found.