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Painting and graphic arts in Italy

FUSSLIN, Johan Rudolf & Johann HEINRICH.
Catalogue critique des meilleures gravures d'après les maîtres les plus cèlèbres de toutes les écoles. À l'usage des amateurs, curieux d'apprendre à connoitre le caractere distinctif de chaque peintre de premiere réputation, moyennant une collection peu nombreuse, mais choisie, d'estampes gravées ou faites à l'eau-forte. Ecole de Rome et de Florence. Ecole de Lombardie et de Bologne.





(Hildesheim, J.D. Gorstenberg), 1805. 2 vols. 8vo. Original grey-blue wrappers, paper title-labels with title i ink in mannuscript. (2), 292; 312 pp.

First edition of a translation into French of a work on painting and graphic arts in Italy throughout the ages by the Swiss painter and draughtsman Johann Rudolph Füssli (or Fuessli or Fuseli) (1709-1793). The first volume is dedicated to artists of the schools of Rome and Florence, the second volume to the schools of Lombard and Bologna. Johann Rudolph Füssli was a contributor and editor to the 'Allgemeines Künstler Lexicon', the important artist's dictionary with over ten thousand entries. His son Johann Heinrich (1744-1832) worked with him and also worked as a literator in the arts, and he was also professor in national history. In the present work he wrote the preface which is followed by notes of the translator J.A.S. de Beroldingen (1758-1816).

Good, uncut set.- (Spines sl. worn; library stamps of the Fùrstliche Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen on titles).
Nouvelle Biographie Générale 19, 17-18; Thieme-Becker 12, pp. 572-3 (mentions Johann Rudolf Fussli (1737-1806) as author????); not in Cicognara, Vinet nor Monglond.

Related Subjects: Art  Catalogues  Graphic  Italy 

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