Varchi, Benedetto. Due lezzioni di M. Benedetto Varchi, nella prima delle quali si dichiara un sonetto di M. Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Nella seconda si disputa quale sia piu nobile arte la scultura, o la pittura, con una lettera d'esso Michelagnolo, & piu altri eccellentiss. pittori, et scultori, sopra la quistione sopradetta. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino 1549
This printing of two lectures on artistic theory given by Benedetto Varchi in front of the Accademia Fiorentina in March 1547 contain the first printing of verses by Michelangelo. before they were "amended" by his nephew for the 1623 edition. The publication of the lectures is accompanied by letters to Varchi by Vasari, Bronzino, Pontormo, Battista del Tasso, Francesco da Sangallo Niccolò Tribolo Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo himself (who concludes his letter with a snide comment about an unnamed artist, who is Leonardo da Vinci . This formed part of the design of Grand Duke Cosimo to reclaim Michelangelo for Florence, while Michelangelo was working on the new Basilica of St Peter in Rome; Michelangelo had left Florence in the time of Duke Alessandro de' Medici, as indeed had the anti-Medicean Varchi, though Varchi returned seven years later when pardoned by Cosimo.
For the 1623 first edition of Michelangelo's poetry, see lot 467.
4to (206 x 136 mm). Roman and italic type, 33 lines. collation: A-S4 T6: 78 leaves. Woodcut initials. (First quire with some damp-staining, other occasional light damp-staining.)
binding: Contemporary limp vellum (210 x 153 mm), manuscript title on spine with inventory number 83, holes from two pairs of alum-tawed ties. (Binding somewhat rubbed and creased with a few small tears and wormholes, remains of later paper label on spine, possibly originally containing another work now removed.)
provenance: Giovanni Dolfin (1529-1584, bishop of Torcello then Brescia), inscription on title-page — Ernst Steinmann (1866-1934, art historian and expert on Michelangelo), bookplate. acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London. references: Edit16 34572
Varchi, Benedetto. Due lezzioni di M. Benedetto Varchi, nella prima delle quali si dichiara un sonetto di M. Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Nella seconda si disputa quale sia piu nobile arte la scultura, o la pittura, con una lettera d'esso Michelagnolo, & piu altri eccellentiss. pittori, et scultori, sopra la quistione sopradetta. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino 1549
This printing of two lectures on artistic theory given by Benedetto Varchi in front of the Accademia Fiorentina in March 1547 contain the first printing of verses by Michelangelo. before they were "amended" by his nephew for the 1623 edition. The publication of the lectures is accompanied by letters to Varchi by Vasari, Bronzino, Pontormo, Battista del Tasso, Francesco da Sangallo Niccolò Tribolo Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo himself (who concludes his letter with a snide comment about an unnamed artist, who is Leonardo da Vinci . This formed part of the design of Grand Duke Cosimo to reclaim Michelangelo for Florence, while Michelangelo was working on the new Basilica of St Peter in Rome; Michelangelo had left Florence in the time of Duke Alessandro de' Medici, as indeed had the anti-Medicean Varchi, though Varchi returned seven years later when pardoned by Cosimo.
For the 1623 first edition of Michelangelo's poetry, see lot 467.
4to (206 x 136 mm). Roman and italic type, 33 lines. collation: A-S4 T6: 78 leaves. Woodcut initials. (First quire with some damp-staining, other occasional light damp-staining.)
binding: Contemporary limp vellum (210 x 153 mm), manuscript title on spine with inventory number 83, holes from two pairs of alum-tawed ties. (Binding somewhat rubbed and creased with a few small tears and wormholes, remains of later paper label on spine, possibly originally containing another work now removed.)
provenance: Giovanni Dolfin (1529-1584, bishop of Torcello then Brescia), inscription on title-page — Ernst Steinmann (1866-1934, art historian and expert on Michelangelo), bookplate. acquisition: Purchased in 1997 from Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London. references: Edit16 34572
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