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GAURICO (Pomponio). - Lot 14

GAURICO (Pomponio). De sculptura. [...]. S.l.n.d. [on the colophon]: Florence, January 8, 1504. In-8, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Binda Milano). Very rare first edition of the first printed book devoted entirely to sculpture. It was printed in Florence by Filippo di Giunta. Pomponius Gauricus (Gaurico) (c. 1480-1530), a Paduan humanist and amateur sculptor, praises sculpture and briefly discusses its aesthetic and technical aspects (modeling, carving wood or ivory, molding and sculpting plaster, carving marble, bronze). He cites the great sculptors of Antiquity, such as Phidias, Pygmalion and Praxiteles, and of the Quattrocento, such as Severo da Ravenna, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Ghiberti (Laurentius Cion) and above all Donatello, whom he mentions several times. According to Schlosser, in La Littérature artistique (1984, p. 262), the details on metalworking are of the utmost interest: the chapters on the technique of bronze casting belong to the most interesting parts of this work [...]; on the other hand, for such an early period, before Vasari and Cellini, we have only very meagre indications. Equally important is Gauricus' chapter on perspective, which appears to be the first printed book to set out a method of perspective construction. Indeed, De sculptura precedes by a year the publication of Viator's famous treatise on perspective (1505), and by several years Alberti's De pictura (1540), Serlio's books on geometry and perspective (1545) and Barbaro's La Pratica della perspetiva (1568). The small lettering on the first text leaf is painted red. Marginal restoration to leaves b8 and e8. Some wetness and faint stains. (Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 40-41; Riccardi, t. I, pp. 582-583; Parronchi, "La perspective dans le De sculptura de Pomponius Gauricus" in Revue de l'art, 1970/3, no. 9, pp. 49-50; see also the annotated translation of the work by André Chastel and Robert Klein, Droz, 1969, who describe it as "the first art treatise intended for amateurs and cultivated dilettantes"). Provenance: Stéphane Clavreuil bookshop

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