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Classical antiquities. WINCKELMANN, Giovanni. Monumenti Antichi inediti.Napoli, Stamperia Reale, 1820 2 voll. in folio; 460x290 mm; light blue binding on boards; Volume I: Pp. [8], CXVII, [1]. Vignette engraved on copper on titlepage. 11 illustrations in the text. Traces of humidity on the lower margins of a few pages. Volume II: Pp. [4], CCCLXXI, 208 numbered engravings o.t. in 109 pages, which of several are folded. Numeration errors. Some plates are in single figure, other with a lot of figures, Woodcut endpieces. Ornament engraved on copper before Index, starting from p. CCLXXXV. Sligh trace of humidity on the lower part and some page with browning. Good copy. Very rare Neapolitan edition in folio by Winckelmann. The author was one of the most refined scholars of classical culture, theoretic and father of the discipline of art history. I Monumenti Antichi Inediti was his penultimate work. The nomination as "Soprintendente alle Antichità di Roma", led him three years later to write this work, containing the scientific illustration of works of Roman antiquity, mainly those of sculpture preserved in Roman museums. Until now little studied because considered unfinished, but it is fundamental to understand the world of the ancient; for the first time, in fact, the author inserts so significantly the graphics of the Monuments he describes, in an absolutely innovative vision that combines descriptions and representations. Although premature death prevented Winckelmann from completing its development, his principal continuators, from Seroux d'Agincourt to Leopoldo Cicognara, Luigi Rossini and Giovanni Volpato consider the Monuments a real popular model for the history of art. Bound with : RAFFEI, Stefano. Ricerche sopra un Apolline della villa dell’eminentissimo Signor Cardinale Albani.di servire di supplemento all’opera Monumenti Antichi Inediti del sig. Giovanni Winckelmann.Napoli, Stamperia Reale, 1823 In folio; 460x29 mm; light blue binding on boards. Pp. 171. 17 plates engraved on copper o. t. Headpiece engraved by Aloja on p. 85. Some pages with slight foxing or brownings. Good copy with wide margins and uncut. Very rare Neapolitan edition in folio that completes the Winckelmann's "Monumenti Antichi Inediti". Interesting eleven Raffei's dissertations on a series of bas-reliefs and artifacts present inside the villa of Cardinal Albani, on Via Salaria, in Rome. Each dissertation is accompanied by a beautiful iconographic apparatus that represents the object, described and explained in the text that precedes the plates. His love for the cardinal's art and his role as patron and promoter of the new neoclassical art was famous. His villa hosted his collection of antiquities and Roman sculpture, the subject of studies by numerous Italian and foreign artists, including Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who was a guest of the cardinal for the last ten years of his life and also worked on catalog the materials. 3 volumes