La reale galleria di Torino illustrata… ridotta dalla I.a edizione. Dedicata a S. M. Vittorio Emanuele II Re d Italia.

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RARE WORK WITH 165 BEAUTIFUL PLATES. AZEGLIO, Roberto d . La reale galleria di Torino illustrata… ridotta dalla I.a edizione. Dedicata a S. M. Vittorio Emanuele II Re d Italia. Turin, Luciano Basadonna Editore, 1864. Large folio (52x33,5cm). 2 vols: 320 pp., portrait of Vittorio Emanuele II and 80 plates; 290 pp. and plates numbered 81 to 164 plates. A total of 165 plates, all in fine condition and with tissue paper guards. Bound in contemporary half maroon morocco and cloth, gilt title and gilt decorations to spine. Minor defects to the binding, internally bright and crisp. Very good. Second edition (the first was printed in 1836) of the first catalogue illustrating the "Royal Gallery" of Palazzo Madama, now known as Galleria Sabauda, inaugurated and opened to the public on 2 October 1832. By the will of Carlo Alberto, Palazzo Madama had become one of the most important art galleries in Italy. At that time, it collected the collections from the Royal Palace, the Palazzo Carignano in Turin and the Palazzo Durazzo in Genoa (purchased in 1824) D'Azeglio, curator and founder of the museum, and author of the descriptions of the paintings, combined long historical digressions to art criticism, with the aim to give the work a distinctly Italian connotation. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1651412086186

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