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Porta et fenestra: frammenti di un libro del Seicento napoletano

2012

In spring 2011 some small engravings of immaginative portals appeared on the antiquarian market in Palermo, interesting traces of a bigger collection probably put together by an unknown Sicilian architect. Assembled with other portals coming from the book "Porte d'archittettura rustica...", by Orazio Perucci, these engravings make part for sure of another book -till now apparently unknown to the scholars - dedicaded to the same specific theme of "Porta et fenestra" (portals and windows), as can be drawn from a fragment of the title page. By the schape and the language, these portals can be easily dated to the seventeenth century, while the author can be identified in Bonaventura Presti (Bol…