Le Fontane di Roma (parts 1-4)

Giovanni Battista Falda

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Compendium of four print series showing views of the main fountains and water sources in and around the city of Rome, published by Giovanni Giacomo Rossi. Bound together in the modern maroon binding are: 'Le Fontane di Roma (...); 'Le Fontane delle Ville di Frascati (...)'; 'Le Fontane ne' Palazzi e ne' Giardini di Roma (...)'; 'Le Fontane del Giardino Estense in Tivoli (...)'. The first two suites were done by Falda whereas the latter two are by Venturini. Some of the prints excede the size of the book and are folded to fit the binding.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

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