Codice Resta

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hree centuries ago the Count of Milan, Sebastiano Resta, began a rare drawings collection.

The Resta collection was unequalled for typology, quality and quantity of subjects of drawings. Sebastiano Resta gathered this extraordinary collection in a volume, that himself called “ The Portable Gallery”: a real travelling museum in which it is possible to follow the characteristic traces of styles and artists of centuries before, but especially of XVII century. The collector of these drawings has noted on every page his personal remarks and added news, information, reflections and anecdotes on some of the artists represented in the volume.

Artists Represented

Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, Perugino, Pollaiolo, Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio, Raffaellino del Garbo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Botticelli, Bramante, Tiziano, Dürer, Dosso Dossi, Daniele da Volterra, Raffaello, Perin del Vaga, Baccio Bandinelli, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Rosso Fiorentino, Raffaello del Colle, Giulio Mazzoni, Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Brizio, Mantegna, Correggio, Parmigianino, Barocci, Tintoretto, Bernardino Luini, Aurelio Luini, Giulio Campi, Taddeo Zuccari, Federico Zuccai, Pomarancio, Cavalier d’Arpino, Hendrik Goltzius, Agostino Carracci, Annibale Carracci, Lodovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Guercino, Bernini.

The volume was given to Ambrosiana Library of Milan, where the volume is currently conserved. They have permitted the publisher to reproduce the selection of one hundred plates.

Technical Characteristics

• Reproduction of the original volume
• Format: 37.2 x 52 centimetres
• Pages: 240
• Cased edition
• Hand-bound in leather, with golden impressions matching the original book.
• Special paper created only for this volume by Cartiere Miliani di Fabriano
• Limited edition of 1,000 copies

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