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       Facsimile edition with commentary, 2 volumes, size cm 15x21 in box ISBN 978-88-86251-91-4 Price: € 1250,00 |
ALBRECHT DÜRER The Small Xylographic Passion - Nuremberg 1511  The Small xylographinc Passion is one of the most famous works of Albrecht Dürer. Made between 1509 and 1511, when it was published in a book by the same artist, publisher himself of his great graphic works. The work consists of 36 woodcut plates, plus the title page, "vir dolorum", and a further table, already repudiated by Dürer, but included for documentation, the average size of the woodcuts is 128 x 96 mm, printed on sheets of 21 x 15 cm. The original volume was completed with the comment to the tables of Philip Chelidonio. A few years after, the entire suite was sold by Dürer to the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi in Bologna, with whom Dürer then came into conflict, accusing him of plagiarism. In fact, Raimondi used the tables to do the same work in etching, as well as copied other works - particularly the leaves of the "Life of the Virgin" - to sell them on the Italian and European market. Such was the popularity of Dürer's work in the first decades of the sixteenth century, that many artists were inspired fortheir works: Romanino by Pontormo, but also many German and Flemish illuminators, as Nicolaus Glockendon and Simon Bening. The original drawings reappeared in Venice, and after an edition in the mid-sixteenth century, in 1600 the work on the initiative of the cartographer and engraver Donato Rasciotti, was reprinted by the publisher Venetian Daniele Bisuccio with a dedication to the Archduke of Austria, with a new title and with the new commentary in Italian by Maurizio Moro. The facsimile edition of the work wak taken by one of the rare examples of test printing of the seventeenth century, from a private collection,withaout the text by Maurizio Moro, but with all the original woodcut apparatus: the title "Vir dolorum", the 36 tablets of the Passion, preceded by two woodcuts dedicated to Progenitors in Eden, and the first version of the table "Christ on the Mount of Olives", then repudiated by Dürer and replaced with the new one . The format (21 x 15) and the number of pages (76 + VIII endpapers and imprint) are similar to the original work. The work is printed on Fabriano Gentile paper, the leather binding with a frame engraved on the plates, is by Ancient Bookbinding Gozzi of Modena. Facsimile editione is completed by a volume (in Italian) about life and work of Albrecht Dürer. The author is the same publisher, Mauro Bini, who has re-read the story of the artist of Nuremberg in an innovative way: a long journey to the "modernity." Since its first youth in Germany, the two journeys in Italy and Venice, to the last stay in Flanders in 1520-21, Dürer went to the discovery of new trends in the Renaissance and the new dimension of man and of scientific knowledge as in Anversa, capital of trade and balance of political world, discovered the new European bourgeois society. The Small Passion wood and this commentary volume are kept in a brown silk box. The print run consists of 199 copies, numbered and certified, + 26 signed from A to Z reserved for Bulino.s friends. 
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