RARE PLATE FROM FRANCINI'S LIVRE D'ARCHITECTURE. PL XXXVI

RARE PLATE FROM FRANCINI'S LIVRE D'ARCHITECTURE. PL XXXVI

£125

Beautiful plate from a V Rare architectural book

'Livre d’architecture contenant plusieurs portiques de differentes inventions, sur les cinq ordres de colomnes' by Alessando Farncini and published by Melchoir Tavernier Paris 1630.

First issue of a series of forty designs for monumental doorways and entrances in a Mannerist style, by a Florentine who had been invited to the French court about 1598 to create grottoes and fountains in the grounds of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and later in Marie de Médicis’ garden of the Luxembourg.

V good condition