Dolce, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura di M. Lodovico Dolce, intitolato l'Aretino. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconvengono, con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtu e delle opere del divin Titiano. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1557 [bound with:]
Doni, Anton Francesco. Disegno del Doni, partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura; de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest'arti, et si termina la nobiltà dell'una et dell'altra professione. Con historie, essempi, et sentenze. Et nel fine alcune lettere che trattano della medesima materia. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1549
First editions of both texts. Lodovico Dolce, a Venetian man of letters, worked closely with the Giolito printing house. This literary treatise on painting, called L'Aretino, is a dialogue between Pietro Aretino, in Venice (who died the year before publication), and Giovanni Francesco Fabrini, a Florentine. The work compares Michelangelo and Raphael before ending with an appreciation of Titian.
Doni, a Florentine, began his association with the Giolito print shop with this work, which emphasises the importance of disegno in art, in particular praising Michelangelo (a fellow Florentine). Appended to the text are some of Doni's letters on the subject of art, including one to Pietro Aretino. Similar treatises were by the Venetian artist Paolo Pino (lot 584) and the Florentine humanist Varchi (lot 629), which all ultimately derived from Alberti (lot 428).
2 works in one volume, 8vo (144 x 98 mm). Italic type, 25 and 30 lines plus headline. collation: Dolce: A-G8 H4: 60 leaves; Doni: A-H8: 64 leaves. Woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut device on final verso of Doni. (Cut somewhat close, occasional light staining, small wormhole in first three leaves, last leaf with small area of repair with missing text supplied in manuscript.)
binding: Old vellum (150 x 105 mm), manuscript text on spine.
acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: Edit16 17350 & 17679
Dolce, Lodovico. Dialogo della pittura di M. Lodovico Dolce, intitolato l'Aretino. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconvengono, con esempi di pittori antichi, & moderni: e nel fine si fa mentione delle virtu e delle opere del divin Titiano. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1557 [bound with:]
Doni, Anton Francesco. Disegno del Doni, partito in piu ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura; de colori, de getti, de modegli, con molte cose appartenenti a quest'arti, et si termina la nobiltà dell'una et dell'altra professione. Con historie, essempi, et sentenze. Et nel fine alcune lettere che trattano della medesima materia. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1549
First editions of both texts. Lodovico Dolce, a Venetian man of letters, worked closely with the Giolito printing house. This literary treatise on painting, called L'Aretino, is a dialogue between Pietro Aretino, in Venice (who died the year before publication), and Giovanni Francesco Fabrini, a Florentine. The work compares Michelangelo and Raphael before ending with an appreciation of Titian.
Doni, a Florentine, began his association with the Giolito print shop with this work, which emphasises the importance of disegno in art, in particular praising Michelangelo (a fellow Florentine). Appended to the text are some of Doni's letters on the subject of art, including one to Pietro Aretino. Similar treatises were by the Venetian artist Paolo Pino (lot 584) and the Florentine humanist Varchi (lot 629), which all ultimately derived from Alberti (lot 428).
2 works in one volume, 8vo (144 x 98 mm). Italic type, 25 and 30 lines plus headline. collation: Dolce: A-G8 H4: 60 leaves; Doni: A-H8: 64 leaves. Woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut device on final verso of Doni. (Cut somewhat close, occasional light staining, small wormhole in first three leaves, last leaf with small area of repair with missing text supplied in manuscript.)
binding: Old vellum (150 x 105 mm), manuscript text on spine.
acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Bernard Quaritch, London. references: Edit16 17350 & 17679
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