Fabio Colonna
Phytobasanos, sive plantarum aliquot Historia (Plant Touchstone, or the History of Some Plants)
Artist
Fabio ColonnaItalian (Neapolitan), 1567–1640
Author
Fabio ColonnaItalian (Neapolitan), 1567–1640
CultureItalian
Titles
- Phytobasanos, sive plantarum aliquot Historia (Plant Touchstone, or the History of Some Plants)
Date1592
MediumBound book with 37 etchings
DimensionsClosed: 8 1/16 × 6 1/16 x 3/4 in. (20.4 × 15.4 x 1.9 cm)
Open: 8 1/16 × 11 1/4 x 3/4 in. (20.4 × 28.6 x 1.9 cm)
Open: 8 1/16 × 11 1/4 x 3/4 in. (20.4 × 28.6 x 1.9 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2013.4
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Exhibition History"Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, pp. 273-276, no. 143.
Catalogue raisonnéMortimer 1974, no. 130
Hunt 1958, vol. 1, no. 165
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Louise Bourgeois
1992
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Sean Scully
1992
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