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BARBARO, Daniello (1513-1570). La Pratica della Perspettiva. Venice: Camillo and Rutilio Borgominieri, 1568.
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BARBARO, Daniello (1513-1570). La Pratica della Perspettiva. Venice: Camillo and Rutilio Borgominieri, 1568.
First edition first issue of Barbaro's treatise on perspective, intended for practicing painters, sculptors and architects.
Folio (295 x 205 mm). Title with woodcut border enclosing first two words and woodcut printer's device, repeated on 2B6v. Italic type. 220 woodcut illustrations and diagrams [RIBA count], 23 full-page, one double-page. Woodcut headpieces in three-dimensional geometric forms and woodcut initials. (Occasional some light browning and staining, upper portion of last leaf laid down, touching printer’s device.) 18th-century vellum, spine gilt. Provenance: Early ink stamp on title; Gianni de Marco (bookplate). Fowler 36.
It was in part compiled from the work of previous theorists on perspective, particularly Dürer's Unterweysung der Messung (published in German in 1525 and Latin in 1532). The three large landscape cuts showing theatre decors are copied from illustrations in the first quarto edition of Serlio's De architettura (Venice: 1566); other cuts, and a description of Dürer's “instrument for drawing in perspective” (2A2r) derive from his Unterweysung, and from Barbaro's edition of Vitruvius (Venice: 1567). Among the woodcuts original to this work are a full-page cut of a new kind of measuring instrument invented by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto (2A4r), and the striking 3-dimensional headpiece ornaments. This edition is known in a number of issues: this copy has both the title and the colophon dated 1568, and the woodcut initial “S” on V2r depicting a swordsman on horseback. Adams B-171; Berlin Kat. 4694; Brunet I, 644; Cicognara 809; Fowler 36; Gamba 1233; Mortimer Italian 39; RIBA (1568 issue); Millard Italian 12.
First edition first issue of Barbaro's treatise on perspective, intended for practicing painters, sculptors and architects.
Folio (295 x 205 mm). Title with woodcut border enclosing first two words and woodcut printer's device, repeated on 2B6v. Italic type. 220 woodcut illustrations and diagrams [RIBA count], 23 full-page, one double-page. Woodcut headpieces in three-dimensional geometric forms and woodcut initials. (Occasional some light browning and staining, upper portion of last leaf laid down, touching printer’s device.) 18th-century vellum, spine gilt. Provenance: Early ink stamp on title; Gianni de Marco (bookplate). Fowler 36.
It was in part compiled from the work of previous theorists on perspective, particularly Dürer's Unterweysung der Messung (published in German in 1525 and Latin in 1532). The three large landscape cuts showing theatre decors are copied from illustrations in the first quarto edition of Serlio's De architettura (Venice: 1566); other cuts, and a description of Dürer's “instrument for drawing in perspective” (2A2r) derive from his Unterweysung, and from Barbaro's edition of Vitruvius (Venice: 1567). Among the woodcuts original to this work are a full-page cut of a new kind of measuring instrument invented by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto (2A4r), and the striking 3-dimensional headpiece ornaments. This edition is known in a number of issues: this copy has both the title and the colophon dated 1568, and the woodcut initial “S” on V2r depicting a swordsman on horseback. Adams B-171; Berlin Kat. 4694; Brunet I, 644; Cicognara 809; Fowler 36; Gamba 1233; Mortimer Italian 39; RIBA (1568 issue); Millard Italian 12.
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Please note that this book comes from the Borghese family Library with their stamp on the spine and title-page.