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Auction archive: Lot number 118

AMMANATI, Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Two autograph letters signed, three letters signed, and two letters written and signed in his name to Giovanni Caccini Provveditore in Pisa, one autograph letter signed to Francesco Busini in Pisa, and a copy of a l...

Auction 03.12.1997
3 Dec 1997
Estimate
£3,500 - £4,500
ca. US$5,816 - US$7,478
Price realised:
£5,750
ca. US$9,555
Auction archive: Lot number 118

AMMANATI, Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Two autograph letters signed, three letters signed, and two letters written and signed in his name to Giovanni Caccini Provveditore in Pisa, one autograph letter signed to Francesco Busini in Pisa, and a copy of a l...

Auction 03.12.1997
3 Dec 1997
Estimate
£3,500 - £4,500
ca. US$5,816 - US$7,478
Price realised:
£5,750
ca. US$9,555
Beschreibung:

AMMANATI, Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Two autograph letters signed, three letters signed, and two letters written and signed in his name to Giovanni Caccini Provveditore in Pisa, one autograph letter signed to Francesco Busini in Pisa, and a copy of a letter [Giovanni Caccini to the ministri dell'Abbondanza] sent to Ammanati, Florence, 4 December 1562 - 4 March 1564(n.s.) , primarily concerned with arrangements for paving the Ponte Vecchio, Pisa, but also for the transport and restoration of antiquities, and providing a new niche in the Duomo of Florence, altogether 6 pages, sizes 290 x 215mm - 310 x 220mm , 8 with integral address leaves with contemporary endorsements and cut to provide seal strip, copy with integral blank with contemporary endorsement, 3 with papered seals, 5 with traces of seals (small tear to one letter signed, slight discolouration mostly to folds of address leaves). Cosimo I spent long periods in Pisa and paid particular attention to the development of the city. The University was reopened, a palace was modified and a new church built for the use of the Knights of St Stephen, an order he had founded. The appointment of Giovanni Caccini as Provveditore was particularly in regard to drainage and waterways. The undertaking to pave the Ponte Vecchio at Pisa was part of this improvement and maintenance of the city, and these letters all deal with Ammanati's arrangements for the excavation and transport by barge of stone from the Monte Oliveto quarry. Some of Cosimo's other concerns during this period surface in these letters. In 1561-1562 Ammanati had transformed a room in the Pitti Palace into an Antiquarium where 12 black marble niches were to contain antiquities and fragments of antiquities. The shipment of stone from Carrara discussed in the letter of 4 April 1563 included some to be used by the sculptor Valerio Cioli who was restoring antiques; payment was made for the carriage of antiquities on 26 February 1564(n.s.) and stone was required for restoration on 4 March 1564(n.s.). The scheme for remodelling the niches holding statues of the Apostles in the nave of Sta Maria del Fiore is mentioned in the letter of 4 March 1564(n.s.); Ammanati had sent a drawing to the stonecutter of Serravezza, where the quarries for the 'mischio' were, so that he could provide the necessary coloured stone for the niche. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 118
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

AMMANATI, Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Two autograph letters signed, three letters signed, and two letters written and signed in his name to Giovanni Caccini Provveditore in Pisa, one autograph letter signed to Francesco Busini in Pisa, and a copy of a letter [Giovanni Caccini to the ministri dell'Abbondanza] sent to Ammanati, Florence, 4 December 1562 - 4 March 1564(n.s.) , primarily concerned with arrangements for paving the Ponte Vecchio, Pisa, but also for the transport and restoration of antiquities, and providing a new niche in the Duomo of Florence, altogether 6 pages, sizes 290 x 215mm - 310 x 220mm , 8 with integral address leaves with contemporary endorsements and cut to provide seal strip, copy with integral blank with contemporary endorsement, 3 with papered seals, 5 with traces of seals (small tear to one letter signed, slight discolouration mostly to folds of address leaves). Cosimo I spent long periods in Pisa and paid particular attention to the development of the city. The University was reopened, a palace was modified and a new church built for the use of the Knights of St Stephen, an order he had founded. The appointment of Giovanni Caccini as Provveditore was particularly in regard to drainage and waterways. The undertaking to pave the Ponte Vecchio at Pisa was part of this improvement and maintenance of the city, and these letters all deal with Ammanati's arrangements for the excavation and transport by barge of stone from the Monte Oliveto quarry. Some of Cosimo's other concerns during this period surface in these letters. In 1561-1562 Ammanati had transformed a room in the Pitti Palace into an Antiquarium where 12 black marble niches were to contain antiquities and fragments of antiquities. The shipment of stone from Carrara discussed in the letter of 4 April 1563 included some to be used by the sculptor Valerio Cioli who was restoring antiques; payment was made for the carriage of antiquities on 26 February 1564(n.s.) and stone was required for restoration on 4 March 1564(n.s.). The scheme for remodelling the niches holding statues of the Apostles in the nave of Sta Maria del Fiore is mentioned in the letter of 4 March 1564(n.s.); Ammanati had sent a drawing to the stonecutter of Serravezza, where the quarries for the 'mischio' were, so that he could provide the necessary coloured stone for the niche. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 118
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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