DÜRER, Albrecht. Della simmetria de i corpi humani . Translated by G. P. Gallucci, Venice: Domenico Nicolini, 1591.
DÜRER, Albrecht. Della simmetria de i corpi humani . Translated by G. P. Gallucci, Venice: Domenico Nicolini, 1591. 2 o (314 x 211 mm). Nicolini's device on title and colophon leaf. Three folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations throughout. (P5 and S5 slightly cropped affecting images.) Early vellum (rebacked to match). Provenance : Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., Armitage Bridge (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, translated by Gallucci and adding a fifth book. The woodcuts are copied from the first edition, posthumously published at Nuremberg in 1528 as Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (see previous lot). Dürer's third book, it was the synthesis of his belief that beauty was related to mathematical proportion. He makes the height of the human body the basic measurement of form. Books I and II treat of the mathematical and geometrical construction of forms; books III and IV consider the problems of variation and movement, leading to difficult and intricate considerations of spatial geometry, and finally the construction of his famous 'cube man'. "Dürer was the first artist, who, brought up in the late-medieval workshops of the North, fell under the spell of art theory as it had evolved in Italy. It is in his development as a theorist of art that we can study in vitro , as it were, the transition from a convenient code of instructions to a systematic and formulated body of knowledge" (E. Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer , I:244-5). Adams D-1055; Besterman, Old Art Books 34; Cicognara 321; Harvard/Mortimer Italian ; NLM/Durling 1299; Wellcome II, 1920.
DÜRER, Albrecht. Della simmetria de i corpi humani . Translated by G. P. Gallucci, Venice: Domenico Nicolini, 1591.
DÜRER, Albrecht. Della simmetria de i corpi humani . Translated by G. P. Gallucci, Venice: Domenico Nicolini, 1591. 2 o (314 x 211 mm). Nicolini's device on title and colophon leaf. Three folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations throughout. (P5 and S5 slightly cropped affecting images.) Early vellum (rebacked to match). Provenance : Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., Armitage Bridge (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, translated by Gallucci and adding a fifth book. The woodcuts are copied from the first edition, posthumously published at Nuremberg in 1528 as Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (see previous lot). Dürer's third book, it was the synthesis of his belief that beauty was related to mathematical proportion. He makes the height of the human body the basic measurement of form. Books I and II treat of the mathematical and geometrical construction of forms; books III and IV consider the problems of variation and movement, leading to difficult and intricate considerations of spatial geometry, and finally the construction of his famous 'cube man'. "Dürer was the first artist, who, brought up in the late-medieval workshops of the North, fell under the spell of art theory as it had evolved in Italy. It is in his development as a theorist of art that we can study in vitro , as it were, the transition from a convenient code of instructions to a systematic and formulated body of knowledge" (E. Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer , I:244-5). Adams D-1055; Besterman, Old Art Books 34; Cicognara 321; Harvard/Mortimer Italian ; NLM/Durling 1299; Wellcome II, 1920.
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