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Xenotheka_166

For the book «Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città» by Giovanni Battista Falda it was rather difficult to find a connection to other books. The reason therefore is that the book consists mostly of pictures regarding the fountains in the city of Rome, other water sources in this time and also…

Xenotheka_166

In my last posts on the blog, I explored the connection between the development of Rome, the Chigi Family and the papacy. I uncovered that Fabio Chigi also known as pope Alexander VII was very interested in the architectural development of Rome and therefore ordered to develop numerous projects for Rome, whereunder the development of…

Argument_166

The book “Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città” by Giovanni Battista Falda consists mostly out of illustrations. In total the book has 224 pages but only on 110 pages is something written or displayed. There are 105 illustrations and the book has approximately a A5 format. Furthermore, the pages very…

Argument_166

The frontispiece on the first page of the first book contains quite a bit of revealing information about the origins and motivation to create this book. First of all the book is adressed to Agostino Chigi. Agostino Chigi, who was a very prominent member of the influential Chigi family in Rome, gave the order to…

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Giovanni Battista Falda – “Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città” (Roma, 1684) I chose these two pages (p.16 & p.20) because of the incredible beautiful design of the fountains. Furthermore, it is extremely interesting to look at the people in the drawings, because of the way they are dressing and…