Habiti Antichi, ouero, Raccolta di figvre delineate dal gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio suo fratello, diligentemente intagliate, conforme alle nationi del mondo: libro vtilissimo a pittori, dissegnatori, scultori, architetti & ad ogni curioso, e peregrino ingegno

COSTUME. NATIVE AMERICANS. Vecellio, Cesare (ca. 1521-1601)

Edité par Appresso Gio: Giacomo Hertz, Venice, 1664

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment (wear and soiling, lower part of hinges split, a few wormholes along the spine). Internally a very good copy, bound a little tight, with some foxing and some minor faults: title lightly soiled and with adhesion scar affecting a few letters, a few small stains, short tear in the lower margin of leaf A5, fore-edge of pages 9 and 63 shaved, leaf F5 with small tear-out to the margin, verso of last leaf lightly soiled. The text is illustrated with 415 woodcuts depicting men and women of various cultures and nationalities of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas in their native dress. The illustrations of Native Americans in Book XII first appeared in the second edition. Many of the people depicted and described in Vecellio's book are women. For an analysis, see Ann Rosalind Jones, "Fashioning Women in Cesare Vecellio's Costume Books" in "Re-framing Representations of Women: Figuring, Fashioning, Portraiting and Telling in the 'Picturing' of Women Project", p. 99-115. This edition prints 415 of the original 505 woodcuts from the second edition (1598), including 13 of the 20 depicting Native Americans. Several of the images (for instance: G1v, G2v, G3r, N7) show that in the 75 years between editions some worms had made their way into the woodblocks. This edition omits the decorative borders used in the 16th c. editions as well as much of the explanatory text. However, abbreviated or reworded descriptions of the articles of clothing and the materials from which they are made are included. While the title of the earlier editions read ?Habiti antichi e moderni?, this edition omits ?moderni?, since the previously ?modern? costumes were now out-of-date by several generations. This is the first edition to attribute the woodcuts to Titian (see below.) This edition has been produced explicitly for the use of artists (painters, draftsmen, sculptors, and architects.) The author is Cesare Vecellio, who joined the workshop of his famous cousin Titian before 1548, and was active as a publisher by 1570.The original 1590 edition included some 420 woodcuts by Christoph Krieger [Cristoforo Guerra], who died before completing the 450 cuts stipulated in his contract; this 2nd edition of 1598 contains 88 additional woodcuts (see Bayer, "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy"). It is believed that Inigo Jones used two of Vecellio?s images when designing costumes for plays by Ben Jonson. ?An ambitious anthology of dress from all over the globe: Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas? Vecellio offered more information about nearby and faraway costume than any of the costume books published before his. He promises that the labor and art he has devoted to collecting the images will delight readers curious about the diversity of dress and culture, from Italy to the farthest reaches of the known world? [He] always describes in detail the clothing represented in each woodcut. ?Vecellio's vocabulary materializes the global history of cloth condensed into the fabrics worn by Cinquecento Venetians. A light silk, ormesino, was named after Hormuz, an island in the Persian Gulf where the fabric had been made for centuries before its production was taken up by the Venetian ormesini, for whom a Fondamenta in Canaregio is still named. Tabino or tabi, a rich, heavy silk often given a watered or moiré finish, was originally made in al-Attabiya, a district of Baghdad. The sbernia, a loose cape, probably took its name from the burnous, an Arab mantle. And damasco, damask, a figured silk, echoes the name of the city where it was first made, Damascus in southwest Syria. Venice had been importing the splendid textiles of the East for a long time before Venetian cloth makers began exporting their own damaschino, a textile patterned in arabesques of golden or silk flowers, sent especially to Constantinople. The Americas: ?The section on the New World ties Vecellio to the enormous interest in exploration and colonization shared by early modern Europe. N° de réf. du vendeur 5308

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Habiti Antichi, ouero, Raccolta di figvre ...
Éditeur : Appresso Gio: Giacomo Hertz, Venice
Date d'édition : 1664
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Fine