Historico Philosophica Descriptio Picturae Novae Bibliothecae Fornici In Canonia

by Vaclav Joseph Mayer Franz Anton Maulbertsch

$2,450 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition of an unusual (and exceedingly comprehensive) iconographical guide to the complex ceiling fresco at the monastic library of Strahov near Prague, a painting entitled The Triumph of Divine Wisdom (1793-94) by the accomplished Enlightenment painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-96), an emulator of the rococo style of Giovanni Battista..... More

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