Osservazioni Sopra Il Libro Della Felsina Pittrice Per Difesa Di Raffaello Da Urbino, Dei Caracci, E Della Loro Scuola. Publicate, E Divise In Sette Lettere Da D. Vincenzo Vittoria Patrizio Valenziano, e Canonico di Xativa.

Vincenzo Vittoria

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/3748

Author

Imprint

In Roma,: MDCCIII., Nella Stamperia di Gaetano Zenobj, della Santità di N.S. Clemente XI. Intagliatore, nella Gran Curia Innocenziana. - Con Licenza De' Superiori.

Physical Description

114, [2] p., [1] pl.; 192 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[T.p.] - [Plate] - Al Cortese Lettore Amatore Della Bella Arte Della Pittura - Imprimatur - [Text] - [Quotation from a translation of Plutarch].

Responsibility Note

The plate and title-page vignette are signed as drawn by Can(cus). Vittoria. Other decorations are unsigned.

References

P.L. Sohm, Style in the art theory of early modern Italy (2001); A. Summerscale, ed., Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: commentary and translation (2000); C. Dempsey, 'Malvasia and the problem of the early Raphael and Bologna', in Studies in the history of art, 17 (1986), p.57-70.

Summary Note

The publication-date of 1703 is carried by the title-page. Each of the seven letters carries the date of 1679.

The plate shows a man sharpening a quill over a copy of Felsina Pi[ttrice], and is captioned 'Ut Scribat Non Feriat'. The book also carries a title-page vignette, headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials.

Reproductions

The work has been microfilmed by the British Library, and by the University of Illinois Library (1988).

Provenance

Purchase approved 3 June 1835 (RA Council Minutes, VIII, 141).

Copy Note

The text is marked and annotated in pencil.

Binding Note

18th-century calf; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Felsina Pittric.'

Name as Subject

Subject

Painters - Artists - Painting - Italy - History - 16th century - 17th century - Renaissance - Baroque
Art criticism - Art history - Letters - Italy - 18th century

Contributors

Gaetano Zenobi, printer
Vincenzo Vittoria, draughtsman