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DÜRER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Institutiones geometricae. Translated by Joachim Camerarius. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1532.
2o (317 x 214 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, 148 numbered woodcut diagrams in the text, tipped-in extensions to diagrams on P6 and Q1. (Title with restoration to blank area, dampstaining to lower margin, a few short repaired tears.) Modern vellum. Provenance: Oliveto, Discalced Carmelites, Convent and Library ("Conventus et Bibliot. PP. Carmelis, Discalceatorum SS Petri, et Teresie in Oliveto" early ink insription on title).
FIRST LATIN EDITION of Dürer's landmark study on the theory of art, intruducing the "Art of Measurement" to a northern Europe audiance a "completely new attitude to artistic creation which had crystallized in Italy during the Renaissance" (PMM). Dürer explains the application of practical geometry to drawings and paintings. "These methods were to be applied to architecture, painting, lettering (Dürer designed both Roman and Gothic letters) and ornamental forms in general, and his book in therefore addressed not only to artists but also tp sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, stonemasons and other craftsmen" (PMM). The work was first published in German Underweysung der Messung, Nuremberg, 1525. Adams D-1046; Harvard/Mortimer French 182; see PMM 54.
2o (317 x 214 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and last leaf, 148 numbered woodcut diagrams in the text, tipped-in extensions to diagrams on P6 and Q1. (Title with restoration to blank area, dampstaining to lower margin, a few short repaired tears.) Modern vellum. Provenance: Oliveto, Discalced Carmelites, Convent and Library ("Conventus et Bibliot. PP. Carmelis, Discalceatorum SS Petri, et Teresie in Oliveto" early ink insription on title).
FIRST LATIN EDITION of Dürer's landmark study on the theory of art, intruducing the "Art of Measurement" to a northern Europe audiance a "completely new attitude to artistic creation which had crystallized in Italy during the Renaissance" (PMM). Dürer explains the application of practical geometry to drawings and paintings. "These methods were to be applied to architecture, painting, lettering (Dürer designed both Roman and Gothic letters) and ornamental forms in general, and his book in therefore addressed not only to artists but also tp sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, stonemasons and other craftsmen" (PMM). The work was first published in German Underweysung der Messung, Nuremberg, 1525. Adams D-1046; Harvard/Mortimer French 182; see PMM 54.