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M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula
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De architectura
M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula
Author: Vitruvius Pollio
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Printer: Giovanni Tacuino (Italian, 16th century)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Printer: Giovanni Tacuino (Italian, 16th century)
1511
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 136 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 30.5 x 21.5 x 4.5 cm (12 x 8 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Samuel and Dorothy Glaser
Accession Number1979.649.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1511
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet V, 1327; Mortimer, Italian, 543; Fowler 393; Berlin 1798
Description(Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1511) Folio; 123 leaves; contemporary limp vellum (off-white linen cloth box, brown leather labels). BOUND with 1524 edition (1979.649.2).
Illustrations of diagrams, plans, architectural details, and machinery in use. Fourth edition, the first with illustrations other than diagrams, and first edited by G. Giocondo. The title-border woodcut with dolphins was one of the most influential ornamental pieces of the sixteenth century (Mortimer), copied as far as Germany and England, and notably by Geoffroy Tory in France.
BOUND WITH the 1524 Nicolini da Sabbio Italian translation, with copies of these blocks (1979.649.2).
Illustrations of diagrams, plans, architectural details, and machinery in use. Fourth edition, the first with illustrations other than diagrams, and first edited by G. Giocondo. The title-border woodcut with dolphins was one of the most influential ornamental pieces of the sixteenth century (Mortimer), copied as far as Germany and England, and notably by Geoffroy Tory in France.
BOUND WITH the 1524 Nicolini da Sabbio Italian translation, with copies of these blocks (1979.649.2).
ProvenanceRed wax armorial seal on verso of title page; Samuel and Dorothy Glaser, by whom given to MFA, December 19, 1979.