HERMANN EGGER
CODEX ESCURIALENSIS. EIN SKIZZENBUCH AUS DER WERKSTATT DOMENICO GHIRLANDAJOS. Unter Mitwirkung von Chr. Hülsen und Adolf Michaelis
1975. 2 vols. in 4to.
Cloth bound
Text volume: 173 pp. and 70 ills. in half-tone-engraving
Plate volume: 140 plates in half-tone-engraving (3 folding)
= Reprint of the orig. edition Vienna, 1905-1906 (Sonderschriften des Oesterreichischen Archäologischen Institutes, Wien, Band IV)

In the Codex Escurialensis, a sketchbook with drawings of Roman architecture, sculpture, paintings and views, lost sketch-leaves of Ghirlandaio which were for the greater part executed in Rome around 1490, have been copied. The drawings are of the utmost importance for the knowledge of Rome from the end of the 15th century and of the oldest Roman antique collections.