Facsimile edition with commentary volume, size 43x30 in box, silk binding with gold impression
ISBN 978-88-86251-86-0
Prezzo: € 990,00
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GAETANO ZOMPINI
Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia
arts and traditional crafts in Venice in 18th century
Pictorial encyclopedia of arts and crafts
The
suite is a collection of sixty etchings printed for the first time in
1753 by Antonio Maria Zanetti, Venetian publisher and intellectual, and it's a sort of illustrated encyclopedia of artists and craftmen who enlivened the streets of Venice in 18th Century. Gaetano
Zompini "invented, designed, and recorded" the plates, while a friend, Don Questini - parish priest of Santa Maria Mater Domini -
at the foot of every art portrayed a triplet rhymed added to describe
it.
Gaetano Gherardo Zompini was born in 1700 in Nervesa, close to Treviso. In
Venice, where he lived, he painted frescoes and
oils, performing works for churches and palaces (like the dome of St.
Nicholas of Tolentino), but also for courts of
Spain and Muscovy, and, among other things, some Bacchanalia for England;
eight mythological canvases painted for the Venetian Palace
Zinelli are now in Mosznej Castle, Czech Republic. Zompini
embraced, as listed in the Memory, "every kind of paint so big, that
small," but was particularly prolific in the field of engraving.
The
Venice of the Arts of Gaetano Zompini is a capital city that lives the
last gleam of its secular power, it's the Venice of Carlo Goldoni, the
great playwright contemporary of Zompini. As
well as the comedies of Goldoni depict in detail the many facets of
Venetian society, Zompini's illustrations graphically summarize daily
habits and customs like a magnifying glass in the streets of life. The
triplet in Venetian dialect accompanying each illustration completes the fresco, giving us a
small encyclopedia of information about the material culture of the
mid-eighteenth century Venice.
Among
the few known original specimens still preserved in public and private
collections the most famous opera by Gaetano Zompini is the one conserved in the Biblioteca Estense of Modena, dated 1753. This is the one we chose for our facsimile edition.
The
volume, handmade binded, has a silk cover with a coat of arms impressed in gold and is conserved in a
special box along with commentary and numbered guarantee certificate.
This
work, made with permission of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture /
Biblioteca Estense of Modena, which also is co-editor, reproduces
in facsimile the original full suite of sixty engravings by
Gaetano Zompini, dated Venice 1753, in original size of 430 × 295 mm. The print on Fabriano paper Vergatona, was performed in 3-colors offset lithography with subsequent impressions in relief. Only 149 copies were printed.
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