La Gerusalemme liberata
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| schema:text | First edition, first issue (indicated by alternating border designs around the plates). One of the greatest books of the eighteenth century. “The publication of Torquato Tasso’s epic poem, ‘La Gerusalemme Liberata,’ by Giovanni Battista Albrizzi (1698-1777) is the supreme achievement of Venetian eighteenth-century book production. Andrew Robison has drawn attention to a copy of the prospectus issued by Albrizzi in The Pierpont Morgan Library, in which the publisher declares; ‘Nothing will be lacking, neither in the correctness of the text, nor in the quality of the type, and of the paper: but above all I have endeavored to distinguish my edition with the singularity and perfection of more than sixty plates, all of different designs, drawn by the celebrated painter Piazzetta, and incised in coppers by the most talented engravers. This printing will satisfy not only the poets, but also the painters, and the sculptors; and I expect that so many, and such fine ornamentations may never again be seen in any book’” (Knox). “Albrizzi’s patronage of Piazzetta reached its climax in the most famous of all Venetian eighteenth-century books--the ‘Gerusalemme Liberata’ which he brought out in 1745. Like most of his enterprises this too was designed for an international public. It was dedicated to the Empress Maria Theresa, whose taste for the luxurious is well attested by the decorations carried out during her rule at Schönbrunn, and the list of subscribers provides a glittering series of names from all over Europe as well as the more familiar connoisseurs and artists in Venice itself such as Marshal Schulenburg and Consul Smith, Rosalba Carriera and Pellegrini. For this book Piazzetta produced some seventy drawings; the dramatic ones show that inability to tell an heroic story which is apparent in many of his paintings, but the pastoral compositions with their elegantly posed shepherds and other country-folk about their ordinary pursuits have some of the quality of Boucher, those Piazzetta’s world is much less artificial. The book was in fact a success in France”(Haskell). |
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| schema:text | Prenten door Martin Schedel naar tekeningen van Giambattista Piazetta. Portret van Maria Theresia door Felix Polanzani eveneens naar G.B. Piazetta |
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| schema:text | Con le figure di Giambattista Piazzetta |
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