Les poussins des oiseaux d Europe is one of the rarest 19th century bird books and one of very few books referring exclusively to chicks. Thirteen of the drawings have copied outline sketches on tracing paper, mentioning the intended plate number for publishing, the lowest number being 147 and the largest 167. Only two of the drawings have already been published in the 1878 issue of the Revue and in Les poussins des oiseaux d Europe (plates 147 and 148). Apparently most of the present drawings originally were planned to be published in the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, but according to it s discontinuation stayed unpublished until today. This scientific journal was founded in 1849 and stopped in 1879.

The book includes 150 hand-colored lithographic plates by Albert Marchand, most of which had already been published in the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie between 18. In 1883 Albert and his brother Armand published a very rare monograph on young European birds, Les poussins des oiseaux d Europe. Albert Marchand was a son of the French ornithologist Jean-Jacques Marchand (1770-1850). Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.įrance, n.d. Rust, Das Palais Thinnfeld in Graz, in Documenta Pragensia 28, 2009. 405 Vladimir Markovic, A.E.Martinelli graditelj Althanovog dvorca u Cakovcu, 1972 M.S. We could not trace another signed drawing by him. The ductus of our drawing correlates with the unsigned plans for the Palais Thinnfeld which are preserved in the Archiv Schloss Thinnfeld.

Despite his extensive activity only a few drawings by Martinelli has been preserved. There are several striking similarities to the Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in Vienna, which was designed and built by Domenico Martinelli and Gabriel de Gabrieli in 1691-1705. The drawing shows the elevation of the facade of a large city Palais with a total length of circa 60 meters. He designed palais, castles and other buildings for the families of Esterházy, Liechtenstein, Schwarzenberg, Starhemberg, Althann and several others. Martinelli was one of the preferred architects of the Habsburg nobility. Among his works are the Palais Thinnfeld in Graz, the Invalidenhaus in Budapest (now the city hall), the Ursuline convent in Vienna, the city hall in Ceské Budejovice, the Neuwartenburg castle near Timelkam and the Zrinski castle in northern Croatia. Anton Erhard Martinelli supervised the building of several important buildings in Vienna, such as the Karlskirche and the Palais Schwarzenberg. He was the son of Francesco Martinelli (Lake Como 1651-1708 Vienna), who was an austrian architect with Italian descent.

Martinelli was one of the most employed Austrian architects of his time.

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