Trattato di Camillo Agrippa milanese di trasportar la gvglia in sv la piazza di San Pietro ..

Agrippa, Camillo, -1595? · 1583 · In Roma : Per Francesco Zanetti · 2 pictures

A 1583 Italian treatise by Camillo Agrippa of Milan, printed in Rome by Francesco Zanetti, on moving the Vatican obelisk into St Peter's Square, written for engineers and patrons of the papal works. The two pictures are woodcut ornaments: a large decorated initial I with foliage scrollwork, and a papal coat of arms with crossed keys, a tiara and a dragon, showing the strapwork and printed-ornament vocabulary of late sixteenth-century Roman books that a designer could borrow for heraldic or initial-letter motifs.

Agrippa, Camillo, d. 1595? · Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City) · Obelisks · Hoisting machinery · Conveying machinery · Mechanical engineering · Agrippa, Camillo, -1595? Trattato di trasportar la gvglia in sv la piazza di San Pietro · Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City) -- Early works to 1800 · Obelisks -- Vatican City -- Early works to 1800 · Hoisting machinery -- Early works to 1800 · Conveying machinery -- Early works to 1800 · Mechanical engineering -- Early works to 1800 · Buildings · Vatican City -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Early works to 1800 · Vatican City

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