For the fourth and final assignment, I compared books similar to mine. Using the search function, I looked for a picture book. Numerous were the results, but I settled on book #44, “Giovanni Battista Falda – Le Fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città” – or in English, “Giovanni Battista Falda –…
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Comment: Argument_47 Your book and mine have many similarities! The name of my book is: “Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonio Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Saramtica expeditione insignis, ex S. C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erecta … ” . It is by the same author, Pietro Santi Bartoli, and with Bartoli’s etching…
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As explained in the previous tasks, I have a book that consists of pictures except for some subtitles. Obviously, it was not easy to find suitable keywords for Alice. I tried Aurel and Triumph. I got 90 results. One book that caught my eye was Alberti, 10 books of architecture from 1755. “These were monuments…
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A search for similar books to a fully ‘illustrated’ or most probably etched book is quite difficult. However since I know a few aspects when thinking about this book I tried to search in those areas. In my first search I simply put the author’s name ‘Pietro Santi Bartoli’, the theme ‘design’ and Xenotheka library…
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“Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonio Augusto. Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Sarmatica expeditione insignis, ex S.C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erecta : iterum in lucem prodit”,or in German:“The Cochlis Column, dedicated to M. Aurelius Antonius Augustus, decorated for his achievements in the German and Sarmatian expeditions, erected by S.C. in Rome on…
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Pietro Santi Bartoli was an Italian painter who lived in the 17th century. Since he was very much interested in archeology he went to Rome in his teens where he studied art and etching. The book “Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonio Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Saramtica expeditione insignis, ex S. C. Romae…
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These are the two pages I chose from Pietro Bartoli’s book in the digital version. I chose these specific pages since the way Bartoli drew the water in them caught my eyes. Following the same two pages in the physical version: