S. Andrea a Valle Cericor Regularium Orthog. Sive Erecta Eiusdem Frontis et Partium Abscedentium Adumbratio...

Basilica di Sant'Andrea della Valle. Above the inscription in Latin: "S. Andrea a Valle Cericor Regularium Orthog. Sive Erecta Eiusdem Frontis et Partium Abscedentium Adumbratio Quam Valerianus Regnartius a se Incisam Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Princ. Francisco Peretto S.R.E. Card. Montalto Dicat et Magni Patrui Opus Munificentissimum Oculis Subiicit una cum Ichnographia sev Plani Operis Vestigio".

Etching, printed on contemporary laid paper, good condition.

Little is known about Regnard, except that he was a French engraver who spent much of his working life in Rome making fine engravings of the magnificent buildings and antiquities.

This work by Regnard was published in Rome by Francois Collignon in 1650, without a title, but in a set known as Praecipua urbis templa.

The plates show elevations, sections and plans of 16th- and 17th-century Roman churches, with captions identifying them and their architects (with occasional misattributions). They include work by Carlo Maderno, G. della Porta, F. da Volterra, the Longhi family, G.B. Soria and many others.

Rare.