[Life of the celebrated Painter Masaccio, with some specimens of his works in fresco, at Florence.]
In Firenze l'Anno MCCLXX [1770-2].
Folio, 19th century half calf with marbled boards; lacking title, pp. iv with engraved head-and-tail pieces, text in English and Italian; 26 numbered engraved plates. Joints strained, lightly soiled at beginning and end, a few plates with slight marginal water-stain.
26 portraits copied by Thomas Patch after Florentine painter Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone (1401-28), known as Masaccio. Patch (1725-82) spent his career in Italy, living in Rome 1747-55 and Florence (1755-82). As well as painting the scenery and drawing caricatures, he also stundied early Renaissance art, including the work of Masaccio (1401-1427?), the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, whose innovations in the use of scientific perspective inaugurated the modern era in painting.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 12078] £3,200.00
Folio, 19th century half calf with marbled boards; lacking title, pp. iv with engraved head-and-tail pieces, text in English and Italian; 26 numbered engraved plates. Joints strained, lightly soiled at beginning and end, a few plates with slight marginal water-stain.
26 portraits copied by Thomas Patch after Florentine painter Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone (1401-28), known as Masaccio. Patch (1725-82) spent his career in Italy, living in Rome 1747-55 and Florence (1755-82). As well as painting the scenery and drawing caricatures, he also stundied early Renaissance art, including the work of Masaccio (1401-1427?), the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, whose innovations in the use of scientific perspective inaugurated the modern era in painting.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 12078] £3,200.00