[GUIDICCIONI, Lelio]. Breve racconto della transportatione del corpo di Papa Paolo V dall Basilica di S. Pietro a'quella di S. Maria Maggiore . Rome: heirs of Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1623. First edition of the only witness to Bernini's monumental baroque catafalque , erected in the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore with an edifice by the architect Sergio Venturi For one year after his death, the body of Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1552-1621, Pope from 1605) rested at the Vatican; this volume describes the solemn occasion of the translation of the body to the Borghese chapel at S. Maria Maggiore. It prints the oration delivered by Lelio Guidiccioni and much commemorative verse, and illustrates the catafalque decorated with 20 putti and 16 allegorical figures in stucco by Bernini. Because the statuary does not survive, it has been largely overlooked in Bernini studies (cf. Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini , 3rd ed., 1981, 81:9). Bernini had been granted a papal knighthood only the previous year by Paul V, and 'Cavalier' Bernini is praised in the preface as the one who 'camina ... gran passi ... liberar questo secolo dall'invidia di quelli antichi.' The Gourary copy (Christie's New York, 12 June 2009, lot 404) had 16 plates illustrating the allegorical figures, but these are not present in this copy. BL 17th-Century Italian I, p. 430; Cicognara 1429; Vinet 589. Two parts in one, folio (370 x 260mm). Engraved arms of dedicatee, Cardinal Borghese, on title, folding plate of the catafalque including the temporary statues attributed to Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini by Dietrich Krüger after Giovanni Domenico Garzoli, and an engraving detailing draped column capitals by Krüger after Sergio Venturi overslip corrections pasted to p.16 and to p.31 of the commemorative verse (marginal dampstain to fore-edge with associated paper loss affecting title, first 2 gatherings and last few leaves, title trimmed at bottom). Contemporary limp vellum panelled in gilt (upper cover with loss of vellum at fore-edge, rubbed and stained, spine with small horizontal crack and slight loss at foot).
[GUIDICCIONI, Lelio]. Breve racconto della transportatione del corpo di Papa Paolo V dall Basilica di S. Pietro a'quella di S. Maria Maggiore . Rome: heirs of Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1623. First edition of the only witness to Bernini's monumental baroque catafalque , erected in the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore with an edifice by the architect Sergio Venturi For one year after his death, the body of Pope Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1552-1621, Pope from 1605) rested at the Vatican; this volume describes the solemn occasion of the translation of the body to the Borghese chapel at S. Maria Maggiore. It prints the oration delivered by Lelio Guidiccioni and much commemorative verse, and illustrates the catafalque decorated with 20 putti and 16 allegorical figures in stucco by Bernini. Because the statuary does not survive, it has been largely overlooked in Bernini studies (cf. Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini , 3rd ed., 1981, 81:9). Bernini had been granted a papal knighthood only the previous year by Paul V, and 'Cavalier' Bernini is praised in the preface as the one who 'camina ... gran passi ... liberar questo secolo dall'invidia di quelli antichi.' The Gourary copy (Christie's New York, 12 June 2009, lot 404) had 16 plates illustrating the allegorical figures, but these are not present in this copy. BL 17th-Century Italian I, p. 430; Cicognara 1429; Vinet 589. Two parts in one, folio (370 x 260mm). Engraved arms of dedicatee, Cardinal Borghese, on title, folding plate of the catafalque including the temporary statues attributed to Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini by Dietrich Krüger after Giovanni Domenico Garzoli, and an engraving detailing draped column capitals by Krüger after Sergio Venturi overslip corrections pasted to p.16 and to p.31 of the commemorative verse (marginal dampstain to fore-edge with associated paper loss affecting title, first 2 gatherings and last few leaves, title trimmed at bottom). Contemporary limp vellum panelled in gilt (upper cover with loss of vellum at fore-edge, rubbed and stained, spine with small horizontal crack and slight loss at foot).
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