Regole del chiar-oscuro in architettura

Carlo Amati

Milano: Stamperia di Pirolla e Maspero, 1802.

Folio. [4], xxii pp, engraved title, 13 plates. Contemporary red Moroccan spine and corners over marbled boards. Chipping and wear to leather and boards, repair to boards. Hinges cracking, slightly shaken, marginal dampstain, faint foxing to plates.

This volume is Amati’s treatise on the rules of light and dark (chiaroscuro) in regards to the architectural elements and prospects of classical buildings. Amati was a pupil of Pollak and the Zanoia and taught elements of architecture at the Brera Academy in 1798 and from 1805 to 1817. His architectural works include the completion of the facade of the Duomo of Milan and the building of the roundabout of St. Charles Borromeo in Milan, inspired by the Pantheon. Cicognara, 806, Olschki, Choix, 5976.