Author: GALLI BIBIENA, Ferdinando.
Title: Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges.
Description: [1], [1 blank], [10], 143, [1]; 159, [1] pp.Rare early edition of the first volume and first edition of the second volume of 18th-century text books for art students, compiled by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743). He was a teacher at the Academia Clementina, and the founder of the famous dynasty of scenographic designers. Galli Bibiena had been trained in the Bolognese school of illusionists and later returned to Bologna to continue the tradition. The book richly and clearly illustrates what is taught, in fact, the text gives not much more than an explanation of the figures and illustrations on the plates. Both volumes are based on the author's 1711 Architettura Civile, which had been epoch-making on the subject of perspective, quadratura, and stage settings for the theatre.The beautiful and original plates include some beautiful Baroque settings for theatrical scenes. Bibiena's perspective designs for theatre scenery revolutionised the Baroque stage, and also profoundly influenced artists like Piranesi. The vellum of volume one is somewhat ink stained on the front board, very lightly foxed throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cicognara 432 (ed. of 1745 & 1753); Comolli III, pp. 40-42; Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 140 ff.; cf. Berlin Kat. 2630 (ed. of 1777); Fowler 135 (ed. of 1725 of the first vol. only); Hyatt Mayor, The Bibiena Family, New York, 1945; Vagnetti EIVb36 (ed. 1754 & 1731);
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Title: Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges.
Description: [1], [1 blank], [10], 143, [1]; 159, [1] pp.Rare early edition of the first volume and first edition of the second volume of 18th-century text books for art students, compiled by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743). He was a teacher at the Academia Clementina, and the founder of the famous dynasty of scenographic designers. Galli Bibiena had been trained in the Bolognese school of illusionists and later returned to Bologna to continue the tradition. The book richly and clearly illustrates what is taught, in fact, the text gives not much more than an explanation of the figures and illustrations on the plates. Both volumes are based on the author's 1711 Architettura Civile, which had been epoch-making on the subject of perspective, quadratura, and stage settings for the theatre.The beautiful and original plates include some beautiful Baroque settings for theatrical scenes. Bibiena's perspective designs for theatre scenery revolutionised the Baroque stage, and also profoundly influenced artists like Piranesi. The vellum of volume one is somewhat ink stained on the front board, very lightly foxed throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cicognara 432 (ed. of 1745 & 1753); Comolli III, pp. 40-42; Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 140 ff.; cf. Berlin Kat. 2630 (ed. of 1777); Fowler 135 (ed. of 1725 of the first vol. only); Hyatt Mayor, The Bibiena Family, New York, 1945; Vagnetti EIVb36 (ed. 1754 & 1731);
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- Book number: 14807
- Book number: 14807