jean goujon illus (1 risultati)

Folio (36.8 by 25 cm). Signatures: A4, [2nd series:] A-C6 D5, [3rd series:] A-2C6 (= 183 leaves; blank 2C6); [27], 155, [1, blank] ff. Title with large woodcut portrait vignette (repeated beneath colophon); More than 150 woodcut plans, elevations, design details, diagrams of perspective and proportion (including many full- and half-page). Initials and ornaments throughout. Roman type, with the chapter titles in italic; criblé woodcut initials appear at the opening of each book (10-line) and chapter (4-line) throughout: chapter openings employ the Kerver arabesque alphabet used in Jean Martin's 1546 edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Subject Index and Annotations (second series A-D5; lacks blank D6) are here bound preceding the main text, rather than at the end, as would appear to be the intended plan, as D5 contains the colophon and a reprint of the printer's device (portrait). Full recent vellum with exposed thongs, lettered in gilt at spine. Old tear at title (8 cm), just encroaching on vignette, professionally repaired; occasional light to moderate smudging/staining (mostly marginal), else about fine, with very ample margins, in a beautiful period-style binding by Philip Dusel (2012). First edition of the first French translation of the complete text of De Architectura, with a brief life of Vitruvius by the illustrator, Jean Goujon. An anonymous translation of Diego de Sagredo's Medida del Romano (Toledo, 1526), an abridged version of the De Architectura, had been published at Paris by Simon de Colines as Raison darchitecture antique (ca. 1536; repr. 1539). "The translator of the present text, Jean Martin, credits Jean Barbé with the original conception of the translation, and acknowledges his editorial assistance prior to publication. They had previously collaborated on the first French edition of [Sebastiano] Serlio's books 1 and 2. However, Barbé died before Martin's text was ready for the press, and the name of his brother-in-law and business associate Jacques Gazeau appears in the titlepage imprint, with that of his widow and heirs in the colophon. The edition is notable for Goujon's detailed woodcut illustrations, reflecting a number of influences, in particular the figures in Serlio's fourth book. The three theatrical cuts on leaves 77 and 78 showing tragic, comic and rustic stage settings were designed and first used for Barbé's edition of Serlio's books 1 and 2. Other direct Italian influences include the engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi (evident in the depictions of caryatids) and the drawings of Leonardo (especially in the figures showing the proportions of the human body on leaf 28). The woodcut portrait of a gentleman with a luxuriant beard, which is used as a device on the titlepage and colophon leaf, is probably intended to represent the late Jean Barbé, since it occupies the positions of a traditional printer's device and includes an obvious pun" (Millard). Cicognara notes: "Con un bellissimo ritratto del traduttore intagliato in legno nel frontespizio. Questa è la prima edizione del Vitruvio del Martino, in cui professa di essersi valso de' commentatori precedenti, ed in specie vedesi aver preferito fra Giocondo. Le figure intagliate in legno con molto bel garbo sono disegnate la più parte da Jean Goujon e le altre son tolte dal Cesariano, da fra Giocondo e dal Serlio. In fine è una breve dissertazione sull'architettura di Jean Goujon. / With a beautiful wood-carved portrait of the translator on the frontispiece. This is the first edition of Martino's Vitruvius, in which he professes to have relied on previous commentators, and in particular, he appears to have favored Fra Giocondo. The beautifully carved wood figures are mostly designed by Jean Goujon, with the others taken from Cesariano, Fra Giocondo, and Serlio. Finally, there is a brief dissertation on Jean Goujon's architecture." The military and civil engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (ca. 70-80 BCE - ca. 15 CE) is the author of the only surv.