Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek, Mss 13

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Schlatt. Eisenbibliothek
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  • Mss 13
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Date
  • 18th century
  • 1786
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Disegni, e spiegazione della Fonderia principio, e termine della Campana di S. Pietro, fusa dal Cavalier Luigi Valadier, e Giuseppe di lui figlio nell'anno 1786 – per ordine di N. S. PP. Pio Sesto […]
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  • In this magnificently illustrated manuscript of unusual content, the Italian architect and town planner Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839) describes the casting of the Campanone, the largest bell in St. Peter's Basilica, in a text featuring 14 watercolored pen and ink drawings. The Vatican had commissioned the bell from the foundry of his father, Luigi Valadier, who passed away in 1785, before the work on the bell was completed. The son Giuseppe completed the commission and in 1786 prepared a manuscript about this work, pairing each drawing with a written explanation in the form of a legend. First Valadier shows the foundry building (2v-7r); then, in an almost photographic wealth of detail and in vivid colors, he shows the process of producing the bell including the technique of the false bell and the casting in bronze (8v-21r). Finally the finished bell (22v-23r) is transported through the streets of Rome on a wooden sled (24v-25r) and is blessed by Pope Pius VI (26v-27r). – The manuscript was purchased in Bern in 1948.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Italy
    Original form
    • Italy
    Other form
    • Italie
    • Italie (?)
    • Italie (Toscane?)
    • Italie (Venise ?).
    • Italie ?
    • Italie (région de Venise ?).
    • Italie (Florence ?)
    • Italie,
    • Italie.
    • Itàlia
    • Italien
    • Italia
    • Italië
    • Italie (Toscane ?)
    • Itàlia (Toscana?)
    • Italien (Toskana?)
    • Italy (Tuscany?)
    • Italia (Toscana?)
    • Italy (Verona)
    • Italy (Naples?)
    • Italy (Florence?)
    • Italy (Naples?)(
    • Italy (Rome?)
    • Italy (Florence)
    • Italy, Bologna (?)
    • Italy, probably Naples
    • Italy, Naples
    • Italy, possibly Naples
    • Italy (perhaps Bologna)
    • Italy (Nonantola)
    • Probably Northern Italy
    • Padua or Venice
    • Italy (Tuscany)
    • Italy, northern (?)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • Italy and France (?)
    • Most likely northern Italy
    • Probably northern Italy (Verona?)
    • [Italy]
    • Italy, copied by Leon ben Joshua de Rossi of Cesena
    • Italy [Ancona or Pesaro?], [copied by Joseph ben Nissim Fermi?]
    • [Italy] copied by Samson ben Elijah Halfan
    • Italy, Venice?
    • Fols. 2-4: [Italy]
    • Treviglio? (Italy)
    • Fols. 1-98: [Italy]; fols. 100-302: [Italy]
    • Rovere (della Luna, Trent?) (Italy)
    • Ff. 1-64: [Italy]
    • Italy, North?
    • Italy, Bologna?
    • Italy, Reggio-Emilia?
    • Italy, Padua?
    • Italy, Ferrara or Bologna
    • Italy, Padua or Rome
    • Italy, Ferrara?
    • Italy, Genoa?
    • Italy, Probably Padua
    • Italy, Parma or Cremona?
    • Italy, Padua or Venice
    • Italy, Lombardy or Bologna?
    • Italy, Umbria?
    • Italy, Rome?
    • Italy, Ferrara or Venice?
    • Italy, Northeast?
    • Italy, Bologna or Venice?
    • Italy, Veneto, Venice?
    • Italy, Rome or Naples
    • Italy, South?
    • Italy, Florence?
    • Italy, Verona?
    • Italy, Brescia or Padua?
    • Italy, Ferrara or Padua?
    • Italy, Venice or Padua
    • Italy, Cremona Brescia? and Bologna
    • Italy, Ferrara or Verona?
    • Italy, Urbino or Mantua(?)
    • Italy, Padua or Rome?
    • Italy, Naples?
    • Italy, North?, Siena?
    • Italy, Probably Venice
    • Italy, Venice or Treviso
    • Italy, North? or French, South?
    • Italy, Mantua or Ferrara?
    • Italy, Rimini?
    • Italy, Padua or Venice?
    • Italy, Florence or Rome
    • Italy, Northwest?
    • Italy, North, Genoa?
    • Italy, Lombardy or Verona
    • Italy, Emilia?
    • Italy, Venice or Verona
    • Italy, Veneto?
    • Italy, Emilia or Mantua?
    • Italy, Northeast, Ferrara?
    • Italy, Central?
    • Italy, Genoa (?)
    • Italy, Herculaneum(?)
    • IT
    • Italy.
    • Italië (?)
    • Italia (?)
    • [Italien (Teil 1)
    • [Italien ]
    • Italien (II)
    • Italien (II.)
    • Italien (I)
    • Italien (IV)
    • Itália
    • [Italië]
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