Osservazioni sopra il libro della Felsina pittrice per difesa di Raffaello da Urbino, dei Caracci, e della loro scuola.
by [Raphael]; Vincenzo Vittoria
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About This Item
Rome: Gaetano Zenobi, 1703. First edition. Octavo (23 cm); 114, [2] pages. Vignette with arms of Pope Clement XI flanked by putti on title page. LACKS FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT. Decorated letters and ornaments in text. Bound in mottled calf, weak at joints and worn at extremities. Early inscription abraded at base of title page. Pages lightly toned, with occasional stains. References: Cicognara 2404; Anthony Blunt, "Don Vincenzo Vittoria" in The Burlington Magazine, 109:766 (1967) 31-32.
The author was a Spanish engraver and printer who lived and worked in Rome for part of his life. The text is a defense of Raphael and others from some dismissive remarks made by Carlo Cesare Malvasia in his promotion of the Carracci and of the Bolognese school, "La Felsina Pittrice" (1678). Vittoria wrote the material, probably in Spanish, while still living in Valencia. (In the preface, he apologizes for his Italian which "lacks purity.") The significance of the book, according to the art historian Anthony Blunt, lies in the author's descriptions of several drawings by Raphael and his contemporaries which are either lost or known only in engraved copies. Condition noted.
The author was a Spanish engraver and printer who lived and worked in Rome for part of his life. The text is a defense of Raphael and others from some dismissive remarks made by Carlo Cesare Malvasia in his promotion of the Carracci and of the Bolognese school, "La Felsina Pittrice" (1678). Vittoria wrote the material, probably in Spanish, while still living in Valencia. (In the preface, he apologizes for his Italian which "lacks purity.") The significance of the book, according to the art historian Anthony Blunt, lies in the author's descriptions of several drawings by Raphael and his contemporaries which are either lost or known only in engraved copies. Condition noted.
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- Bookseller
- Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5770
- Title
- Osservazioni sopra il libro della Felsina pittrice per difesa di Raffaello da Urbino, dei Caracci, e della loro scuola.
- Author
- [Raphael]; Vincenzo Vittoria
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Gaetano Zenobi
- Place of Publication
- Rome
- Date Published
- 1703
- Keywords
- Carracci Art history Bolognese school Carlo Cesare Malvasia mannerism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Renaissance and Early Modern Humanism;
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- Octavo
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