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The Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo. A.X. renaissance and later architecture and ornament

These two volumes are part of a multi-volume catalogue raisonné that reconstructs the so-called ‘paper museum’ of the papal secretary and diplomat, Cassiano dal Pozzo. The Paper Museum was an attempt to assemble on paper a ‘visual encyclopaedia’ of human knowledge that encompassed both the arts and the natural world. These volumes set out to piece together the collection of drawings of ‘modern’ architecture amassed by Cassiano dal Pozzo and his brother Carlo Antonio. It identifies 308 drawings as having belonged to the collection, the bulk of them now in the Royal Collection, but others dispersed in other museums and in private hands. Most of the drawings are as yet unpublished; and among the discoveries made are drawings by Raphael, Serlio, Perino del Vaga, the workshop of Giulio Romano, Maderno and Bernini. (The project is based at the Warburg Institute and is funded, among other institutions, by The British Academy and The Getty Foundation). The book not only makes known a huge number of previously unknown Renaissance architectural drawings, but it reconstructs the collection and the taste of two of the most important seventeenth-century collectors of architectural drawings of the seventeenth century.