Author: DOLCE, Lodovico.
Title: Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualitą, diversitą, e proprietą de i colori. Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?).
Description: 87, [1] ll.First (and only early) edition of an important treatise on colour by Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568). Dolce's work is typical for the Venetian tradition. At first the Aristotelian propositions on colour are outlined. The main part of the treatise is concerned with the character, diversity and use of the individual colours. All colours are symbolically associated with a particular character, such as purity of heart with white. These associations were already known from earlier literature, and they are supported by interwoven texts drawn from classical, Christian and humanist sources. Lodovico Dolce, a celebrated Italian humanist, made significant contributions to the Italian language and literature. A friend of Titian, he had devoted an earlier book to the subject of art and artists: Dialogo della pittura ... intitolato l'Aretino, 1557. His present Colori was influenced by Telesio and Morati and in turn influenced Occolti and Rinaldi. It provides insights into Renaissance ideas about the interpretation of colour.With the armorial bookplate of Francisco Riccardi de Vernaccia, a Florentine Count and patron of the arts, active ca. 1780-1794, the library stamp of the bibliophile Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805-1868) in Florence on title-page and a later bookplate with the crowned HL monogram of Horatius or Orazio Landau (1883 sale?). Slightly foxed, but otherwise in very good condition.l Adams D-731; ICCU, CNCE 17387; Kemp, The science of art, pp. 272-273.
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Title: Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualitą, diversitą, e proprietą de i colori. Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?).
Description: 87, [1] ll.First (and only early) edition of an important treatise on colour by Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568). Dolce's work is typical for the Venetian tradition. At first the Aristotelian propositions on colour are outlined. The main part of the treatise is concerned with the character, diversity and use of the individual colours. All colours are symbolically associated with a particular character, such as purity of heart with white. These associations were already known from earlier literature, and they are supported by interwoven texts drawn from classical, Christian and humanist sources. Lodovico Dolce, a celebrated Italian humanist, made significant contributions to the Italian language and literature. A friend of Titian, he had devoted an earlier book to the subject of art and artists: Dialogo della pittura ... intitolato l'Aretino, 1557. His present Colori was influenced by Telesio and Morati and in turn influenced Occolti and Rinaldi. It provides insights into Renaissance ideas about the interpretation of colour.With the armorial bookplate of Francisco Riccardi de Vernaccia, a Florentine Count and patron of the arts, active ca. 1780-1794, the library stamp of the bibliophile Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805-1868) in Florence on title-page and a later bookplate with the crowned HL monogram of Horatius or Orazio Landau (1883 sale?). Slightly foxed, but otherwise in very good condition.l Adams D-731; ICCU, CNCE 17387; Kemp, The science of art, pp. 272-273.
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- Book number: 21447
- Book number: 21447