Tommaso Mercandetti
Stemmario Mercandetti
Edited by Niccolo' Orsini De Marzo
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The Stemmario Mercandetti is a codex reproducing as many as 26.500 coats of arms of Italian - but not only -families, drawn and hand-coloured by the Tommaso Mercandetti (1758-1821), a well known engraver of gems for chevalières and silverware, medals and coins, working for the Pontificial Court as well as for the Roman Republic and during the Napolonic era, having been in the workshop of the famous Luigi Valadier (1726-85), between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century. The original manuscript consists of six volumes measuring 150x110 mm., and each page contains 20 coats of arms with the name of the family and some... Read more
The Stemmario Mercandetti is a codex reproducing as many as 26.500 coats of arms of Italian - but not only -families, drawn and hand-coloured by the Tommaso Mercandetti (1758-1821), a well known engraver of gems for chevalières and silverware, medals and coins, working for the Pontificial Court as well as for the Roman Republic and during the Napolonic era, having been in the workshop of the famous Luigi Valadier (1726-85), between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century. The original manuscript consists of six volumes measuring 150x110 mm., and each page contains 20 coats of arms with the name of the family and sometimes further pieces of information: this collection is reproduced magnified in its entirety and in full colour in this edition in two volumes measuring 16,5x23 cm. in order to allow a better usability, while the alphabetical list of the coats of arms is available in the herewith attached PDF.
| Author: | Tommaso Mercandetti |
| Curator: | Niccolo' Orsini De Marzo |
| Language: | Italian |
| Binding: | Hardcover, dustjacket. |
| Pages: | 1360 |
| Size: | 16,5x23 cm |
Alphabetical index of the coats of arms
The names of the families whose coats of arms are depicted in the Armorial are reported here in the form, often archaic and sometimes incorrect (expecially when dealing with not Italian families), in which they appear, while the number in brackets represents the number of different coats of arms indicated under the same name, even if they sometimes concern different lineages, and not branches of the same family; regarding the initials, please take due note that often, when the family name begins with an I, the coats of arms are instead listed under the letter J, while surnames that currenty end with the desinence -i, are written here with a final -o.