JF Ptak Science Books Post 2477
The following four engravings appeared in the massive La Basilica di San Marino du Venezia, published by the prolific Ferdinand Ongania in 1886. It is an exhaustive study of the iconic building, the publication being known chiefly I think for its very large and sumptuous chromolithographs of the building’s architecture, art, and endless detail. It forms two volumes of an overall monumental 12-volume epic, though these were complete in themselves.
But then there are these engraving, in wonderful black-and-white, showing with fantastic detail and with a deft touch the mosaics of the basilica. I believe that there were six overall but I sold two some time ago and hadn’t made a digital record of them. Since I have these and another 22 images from that great work, and since I can’t seem to find them online, I thought to make at least rudimentary photographs of them and share. (Making the pictures was a little problematic, as they are pretty large at 27×21″, so some of the lines are a little parabolic, though I think they’re good enough given limited time to spend on them–also each image is at least 2 meg, so they can stand some amount of enlarging.)
- I’ll be selling all of them, with the mosaics being the first installment–so if you’d perhaps be interested in buying them, they can be found at the blog’s bookstore, here.
The engravings (again, they are large at 27×21″, 68x53cm, and are packed with detail).
Each image is very expandable–click in to see the enormous detail:
