Cesare Ripa´s Iconologia 1644
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EMBLEMATICS. RIPA, CESARE. Iconologia, of uytbeeldingen des verstands... on uyt te drucken, en te vinden, ´t begrip van alle sinnebeelden, invallen, devijsen of sinteykenen... verrÿckt met veele beeldnissen en geestige geleerde overwegingen... Giov. Zaratini Castellini... uyt het Italiaens vertaelt door D. P. Pers. Amsterdam (by Dirck Pietersz Pers) 1644.
4:o (about 246x197 mm.). (14, including extra engraved title), 1-636, (8) pp. Engraved extra title, 196 woodcuts in text.
Contemporary vellum, worn, spine in six compartments, loose in upper joint, cracked in lower, lacks ties. Some minor marginal staining, some minor foxing.
Cesare Ripa (c. 1560-c. 1622), Italian iconographer who worked for the cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook and butler.
The first edition of his Iconologia was published without illustrations in 1593. A second edition was published in Rome in 1603 this time with 684 concepts and 151 woodcuts.
The Iconologia was a highly influential emblemata book based on Egyptian, Greek and Roman emblematical representations. The book was used by orators, artists, poets and "modern Italians" to give substance to qualities such as virtues, vices, passions, arts and sciences. The concepts were arranged in alphabetical order, after the fashion of the Renaissance. For each there was a verbal description of the allegorical figure proposed by Ripa to embody the concept, giving the type and color of its clothing and its varied symbolic paraphernalia, along with the reasons why these were chosen, reasons often supported by references to literature (largely classical). (Wikipedia).
From the library of Sven Höglind.
Auktionsnummer:
6114
Datum:
2016-12-20