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Serie di Mascheroni cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame. Rome: Venanzio Monaldini, 1781.
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GIOVANNOLI, Aloisio (1550-1618)
Serie di Mascheroni cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame. Rome: Venanzio Monaldini, 1781.
An extremely rare collection of 38 engravings of grotesque masks, after original designs by the Italian artist and engraver Aloisio Giovannoli, in fine dark impressions. This is the only dated edition, and the only edition recorded in bibliographies. The lettering to the plates have here been partially burnished out. There are recorded several disparate impressions of a few masks from this series, made from earlier states of the plates, e.g. in the New York Metropolitan Museum, however there is no other book form edition of these plates. The title states of the prints that 'per la prima volta escono in luce', making it probable that these prints are published here for the first time as a series. These highly-stylised, dramatic, and theatrical faces, were inspired by antiquity and the Renaissance style of Giulio Romano and partly based upon the work of the French Renaissance artist René Boyvin, and perhaps even Giovannoli’s contemporary, Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Very little is known about the artist, an engraver and miniaturist from Cività Castellana near Rome, except that he created and published another series, of Roman views, besides these masks. We have found one auction record in this century, from the collection of Prince and Princess Henry De La Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais, sold at Sotheby's in 2012. A large copy with deckle edges and thus widest possible margins. Bénézit (2006) 6, 255; Thieme-Becker XIV, 150; Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung, Berlin (1939), 553.
Folio (364 x 234 mm). Engraved title and 38 engraved plates of grotesque masks, deckle edges (title a little spotted and dusty, minor marginal spotting, the odd marginal thumb mark or stain, small worm trail to blank margin of first six leaves restored, two tiny marginal holes restored, closed tear to one leaf restored). Modern decorated paper boards, red morocco label gilt on spine (spine a little darkened). Provenance: Pasolini (bookplate on pastedown).
Serie di Mascheroni cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame. Rome: Venanzio Monaldini, 1781.
An extremely rare collection of 38 engravings of grotesque masks, after original designs by the Italian artist and engraver Aloisio Giovannoli, in fine dark impressions. This is the only dated edition, and the only edition recorded in bibliographies. The lettering to the plates have here been partially burnished out. There are recorded several disparate impressions of a few masks from this series, made from earlier states of the plates, e.g. in the New York Metropolitan Museum, however there is no other book form edition of these plates. The title states of the prints that 'per la prima volta escono in luce', making it probable that these prints are published here for the first time as a series. These highly-stylised, dramatic, and theatrical faces, were inspired by antiquity and the Renaissance style of Giulio Romano and partly based upon the work of the French Renaissance artist René Boyvin, and perhaps even Giovannoli’s contemporary, Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Very little is known about the artist, an engraver and miniaturist from Cività Castellana near Rome, except that he created and published another series, of Roman views, besides these masks. We have found one auction record in this century, from the collection of Prince and Princess Henry De La Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais, sold at Sotheby's in 2012. A large copy with deckle edges and thus widest possible margins. Bénézit (2006) 6, 255; Thieme-Becker XIV, 150; Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung, Berlin (1939), 553.
Folio (364 x 234 mm). Engraved title and 38 engraved plates of grotesque masks, deckle edges (title a little spotted and dusty, minor marginal spotting, the odd marginal thumb mark or stain, small worm trail to blank margin of first six leaves restored, two tiny marginal holes restored, closed tear to one leaf restored). Modern decorated paper boards, red morocco label gilt on spine (spine a little darkened). Provenance: Pasolini (bookplate on pastedown).
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