Gemme d'arti italiane. Anno settimo 1854

Features

Author:  s.a.

Publisher:  Paolo Ripamonti Carpano

Place of printing:  Milan - Venice - Verona

Year of publication:  1854

Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Binding with nice decorated front cover, unfortunately worn and dirty with slightly faded title on the spine; small paper tag with the writing settimo in Roman numeral applied to the front cover. Abrasions on the covers and spine. Cuts and minimal losses on the hinges of the back cover. The headphones, edges and curved corners have abrasions and small losses. Binding slightly unglued. Green endpapers. Browned edges with traces of dust, foxing and brown stains. Well preserved cards with wide margins and scattered foxing; text of the cards framed by rich floral-themed frames. Plates in good condition, with foxing on the edges, protected by sheets of tissue paper. Pencil annotations on the first title page. Text in Italian.

Pages:  (8),XXXI,(1),94,(10)

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  27
Width:  20

Description

Ambitious annual publication by the publisher Paolo Ripamonti Carpano, who we know above all thanks to his precious Strenne illustrated with beautiful chromolithographs, welcome gifts on the occasion of New Year's Eve in the families of the 19th century bourgeoisie. Published starting in 1845, suspended in 1849 and resumed in 1852, the Gemme d'arti italiane had the ambitious aim of presenting themselves as a brief excursus of the artistic panorama of the moment through engravings and descriptions of works by painters and sculptors of the time. In our volume we propose 9 beautiful copper-engraved plates accompanied by a historical-artistic commentary (among the painters represented are Gerolamo and Domenico Induno and Francesco Hayez), preceded by a double frontispiece (the second in chromolithograph), the dedication to Don Emmanuele Falcò in a beautiful chromolithographic frame and a long introduction by Antonio Zoncada. The tables are followed by Notes on the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Brera for the year 1853, Memories of the public Exhibition of Fine Arts in the Academy of Venice (August 1853) and the Index of the Heads of Art and their Authors from year I to VI.

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