A Rare Anthology of Late Baroque Bolognese Designer
Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno.
[Bologna?]: 1783.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition. Engraved title page by by Pio Panfili after a design by Flaminio Minozzi, and 23 other plates engraved by Panfili after various artists’ designs, including his own. Oblong 4to (21 x 27 cm). A Rare Anthology of Late Baroque Bolognese Designer. Modern plain gray boards, black leather spine label. Some soilings and a few smudges, mostly marginal. Plates 2 & 3 waterstained at top inner margin. OCLC: 81773103 (only the Getty copy, and one in the Danish Nat’l Library); Cristiano Marchegiani, M. Iacopini, editor) “Pio Panfili pittore e incisore, Fermo 2006”; in "Studia Picena", LXXII (2007), pp. 358-364v.
Item #249782
A very rare pattern book, being an anthology of late Baroque designs by (principally) Bolognesses artists, architects, and designers, compiled and engraved by Panfili (1723-1812) for the use of young designers. After completing work in Fermo notably for the Sala dell'Aquila nel Palazzo dei Priori, Panfili established himself in Bologna in 1767, where he worked as an engraver for the publisher Petronio Della Volpe (1721-1794), engraving, among other works for that publisher, his 1769 edition of Vignola’s CINQUE ORDINI, and, a few years after this work, the engravings for for a 1786 edition for Leonardo da Vinci’s TRATTATO DELLA PINTURA.
Some of the other artists’ work included here are; Flaminio Minozzi (1735-1817), architect, designer; Mauro Antonio Tesi, (1730-1766), painter; Giuseppe Civoli (1705-1778), architect; Sebastiano Cavina (? ); Giovanni Calegari (1785-1783)
A genuinely rare book, and important to the history of Bolognese art.
