Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre (Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo: Prints) (Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. Series C: Prints) (The Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo: Series C, Prints)

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Cassiano dal Pozzo’s print collection used to be unique in its scope and organisation. Some 3,000 prints are known, in nine albums and lots of loose impressions principally divided between the British Library and the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Cassiano (1588-1657) and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-89) did not commission printmakers to engrave plates (as they did drawings), buying as an alternative what used to be to be had from the flourishing printmaking industry of the time. The material they collected used to be essentially documentary, and they organised the collection by subject matter: costumes, religious processions and ceremonies, tombs and catafalques, the history of St Peter’s, architecture, topography, maps and military engagements, portraits, social and humorous subjects, and so forth. This first a part of the catalogue presents ceremonies, costumes, portrait and genre prints. A remarkable proportion of the prints aren’t to be found in the existing literature, and lots of constitute additions to the known works of major printmakers. Indeed Cassiano’s collection has been described as ‘so far out of doors the common range of print collectors both in the seventeenth century and today that a very high proportion of its contents is excessively rare and will only with great difficulty be found in other places’. This ground-breaking catalogue will be an essential resource not only for students of prints, but for all those studying European visual culture in the seventeenth century.

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