Resta Codex Facsimile Edition

A unique collection of incredible drawings

Three centuries ago the Count of Milan, Sebastiano Resta, began a rare drawings collection. Resta collection was unequalled for typology, quality and quantity of subjects of drawings. Sebastiano Resta gathered this extraordinary collection in a volume, that himself called “Portable Gallery”: a real traveling museum in which it is possible to follow characteristic traces of styles and artists of centuries before, but especially of XVII century. The drawings collector noted in every page by himself, news, informations, reflections and anecdotes.

Authors of the drawings and engravings

Leonardo da Vinci, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, Perugino, Pollaiolo, Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio, Raffaellino del Garbo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Botticelli, Bramante, Tiziano, Dürer, Dosso Dossi, Daniele da Volterra, Raffaello, Perin del Vaga, Baccio Bandinelli, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Rosso Fiorentino, Raffaello del Colle, Giulio Mazzoni, Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Brizio, Mantegna, Correggio, Parmigianino, Barocci, Tintoretto, Bernardino Luini, Aurelio Luini, Giulio Campi, Taddeo Zuccari, Federico Zuccari, Pomarancio, Cavalier d’Arpino, Hendrik Goltzius, Agostino Carracci, Annibale Carracci, Lodovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Guercino, Bernini.