Antique books with drawings of monsters. Antique books with drawings of monsters.
Marco Polo, Fortunio Liceti and Gerardus Blasius -1630 and Giovanni Battista de 'Cavalieri-1585
Fortunio Liceti and Gerardus Blasius -1630-1640
Marco Polo: Livre des merveilles
operates in a way which suits many monsters of the world modern antique et ... (Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world)
Print made by Giovanni Battista de 'Cavalieri
1585
Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri (publisher / printer, printmaker, Italian c.1525 - 1601)
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operates in a way which suits many monsters of the world modern antique et .. .-------- (Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world )---------------------
Print made by Giovanni Battista de 'Cavalieri
1585
Title page with two winged females holding a cartouche above, two putti below. 1585
Figure with wings emerging from buttocks, a face on the torso and the head of a serpent, standing in a landscape. 1585
A young male-like figure with cloven feet many arms and heads standing in a landscape. 1585
Engraving
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered below with three lines describing the figure 'Horible et maraviglioso ... nato del 1578 nel mese de genaro.'
A male monster with four arms and two wings standing naked in the landscape. 1585
Engraving
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered below with four lines describing the sitter 'Un maragiglioso APARs Nouvata monster on the banks of the Danube ... of that country '.
A rearing centaur-like figure with human arms as front legs and webbed fingers on second pair of arms. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: Describing lettered lines below with the six figures' in the country is the gra taburlano cetauri .. / No harassment '.
Female figures with large breasts, three eyes, deformed ears and four hands standing in a landscape. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered lines below with six Describing the figures' In alchuni luochi of these Arabs are ... tributary of the gra dog '. A
figures with the body of a lion and face of a bearded man. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered four lines below with Describing the figures' On some islands in the sea ... Mudi ch el tells all '.
Evil twins conjoined at the pelvis. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered lines below with six Describing the figures' This monster was born in congoli iron ... His cry, and others ... '.
An ostrich-camel-like creatures with the head of a man and an attenuated like winged reptilian neck. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered below with six lines Describing the figures' In these monstrous libya Alpe de color ... gui capreti them '.
A composite comprising monster oxen and human legs, human hands, a rotund torso and the head of a man. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered lines below with six Describing the figures' Insul marie illness ... east ... is a large body et tete '.
A figure seated on a rock with a long neck and part-human part-bird-like head. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: Describing lettered lines below with the six figures' in the last part of Central African Republic to the end of the earth ... huomini to see '.
A hairy man with beared one eye and large breasts standing in the landscape. 1585
Engraving
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered below with six lines describing the monster 'Sopra lisola probana si torva tale creature humane ma sono male formati ... '.
A male figure with one huge leg and foot lying in his back in the sun. 1585
Engraving
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered below with six lines describing the figure 'In ethiopia sotto occidente sono huomeni bene formati ... di forte natura'
A standing figure with cloven feet, human arms and hands and the head of a woolf. 1585
Engraving
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered below with six lines Describing the figures' Nela ninth floor of S + girder nouamente Pottugallo by the King of ... other animals'.
A female figure with breasts so large They wind around her arms. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered lines below with six Describing the figures' campaigns in Libya are ... maxime when Vedeno huomini '.
Female figure with pendulous breasts, short arms, standing on hind legs with a similar smaller figure on her back. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered lines below with six Describing the figures' Nele APLE agypto of these creatures as sformatte ... gradissimo honor '.
An Enormous head with a hat upon two legs with skirt standing in the landscape. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered lines below with six Describing the monster 'It is found in the woods a great de ... capallazza grade heat for the love of ... are very real, bona de huomini conscientia secodo his Lezze '.
A monster with an erect phallus and webbed wings, loosely based on figures from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. 1612
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered with two lines below Describing the figures' sedentary Julius III Pont Max repertam Fuit monster in the seas ... M. angelus Bonarota ... CD inc 1612. '
A naked man with a twin conjoined at the belly, standing in the landscape. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered four lines below with Describing the figures' are gemalli these two children ... in this design. '
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A creature, the right half the head of a young man, the left half the head of a wolf, standing in a landscape. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: Describing lettered lines below with the six figures' in part of ethiopia ... '.
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Portrait of King Picin seated on a table with deformed legs . 1585 Engraving
Inscription Inscriptions
Content: above lettered with title 'Portrait of the King Picin Rome in 1585', with three lines below Describing the Child 'This monster is seen Hogg in Rome ... age of 32 years ...
A woman with no legs in elegant dress on a table. 1585
Inscriptions Engraving Inscription
Content: lettered four lines below with Describing the Child 'This child who monstruosa bede this year 1585 in Rome .. legless ...'.
------------------------- Fortunio Liceti and Gerardus Blasius -1630-1640 ---------
------------------------- ----- De monstrorum caussis, nature, books et differentiis duo ...------ ---
---------------------------- De lvminis natura et efficientia libri tres --------------------
1634 [col. 1633]
From: De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis libri duo ...2. ed. corr.
By: Fortunio Liceti
Two figures showing a half human, half dog monster
Engraving 1648
From: De monstris.../Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii... qui monstra quaedam nova,,,addidit
By: Fortunio Liceti and Gerardus Blasius
Published: Heirs of P. FrambottusPadua 1668
Woman with multiple breasts
Engraving 1640
Multi-coloured people
Cyclopic Infant
Two human figures showing abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Three figures with abnormalities
Three figures with abnormalities
Two human figures with abnormalities
Three figures with abnormalities
Three human figures with abnormalities
Three figures with abnormalities
Two human heads with abnormality
A diagram of a Siamese twin with conjoined spine
A Siamese Twin
Wellcome Library, London
Two conjoined twins, both born on 28 April 1703
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bit of Marco Polo, illustrations a book about his travels, too, people with dog heads.
Marco Polo: Livre des merveilles
BNF Ms. fr. 2810, fol. 106
Peuple des cynocéphales de Nicobar
Marco Polo: Livre des merveilles
BNF ms fr 2810 fol-76v detail
Peuple des cynocéphales d'Andaman
Blemmyae
Marco Polo: Livre des merveilles
BNF ms fr 2810 fol- 76v detail
Peuple des cynocéphales d'Andaman
Marco Polo and other similar images, which still lay only monsters was not in existence many people were firmly convinced.
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dwarfs, cripples, wandering circus performers and Tut gods and monsters-there ===================== Giovanni Battista de 'Cavalieri = biography ===== ====================
(publisher / printer; printmaker; Italian; Male; c.1525 - 1601)
Bibliography
Bury, p.224 (whence following biography)
CLEWhitcombe, 'Print Publishing in sixteenth-century Rome', Turnhout, 2008, p.247
Biography
Engraver, printer and print publisher, from Villa Lagarina near Trento. Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome. 1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio, Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari (Masetti Zannini, 1981). Record of death 23 July 1601.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafreri and Faleti. By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis (Masetti Zannini, 1980) and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari (TNH 100). In 1577 he was employing a printer: Francesco Cornuti (Masetti Zannini, 1981). He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries, including Cort. He himself engraved after works of many artists, including Francesco Salviati, Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli. He also made copies of earlier prints. His subject matter included the devotional, topographical, antiquarian, didactic and 'popular'. He published a number of important series: the 'Pontificum Romanorum Effigies' of 1580 and the 'Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies' of 1583; the 'Ecclesiae Militantis Triumphi' of 1583 and the 'Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea' of 1584; the 'Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae', the first book of which was first published before 1561/2 (Book 1 and 2 together, before 1584; Books 3 and 4 in 1594).
Also Known As
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de'; Cavallieri, Giovanni Battista; Cavalleris, Joannes Baptista
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An allegory of life and salvation, in the centre father time kneels pointing to ascending souls, in the upper left Christ appears before those eager to reach him, various devils throughout
Engraving
Patience; reverse copy after Sebald Beham (Pauli 141); winged whole-length female figure seated on a plinth in three-quarter profile to left, holding a lamb; a devilish figure at right; two angels holding a laurel wreath above her head. 1561
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