Architectural and Perspective Designs (Dover Pictorial Archives)

By Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Book Overview

Incredibly elaborate Baroque architectural stage designs reproduced from 1750 copperplates. The ultimate in classical sets. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486212637
• ISBN13: 9780486212630
• Release Date: June 1964
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 13.5" x 0.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Baroque Theater Design at Its Most Fantastic

I bought this book because the Bibiena family were such a profound influence on the spatial perceptions of Piranesi. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this single family, from Northern Italy, created a series of increasingly ingenious stage designs for, especially, the Hapsburgs. Much of what they created was deliberately perishable and is now lost, although the great theater in Mantua survives. This book gives the plates from Giuseppe's book on architectural designs. They are extraordinary, really the culmination of a great Baroque tradition. Particularly effective are the interior designs, which use elaborate perspective in order to suggest infinite space. The presentation of the plates in this book is not especially polished, but still pretty good.