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8vo. 156 x 98 mm., (6 ¼ x 4 inches). [16], 207, [3] pp., including final blank. Illustrated with a woodcut printer's device to the title-page and a full-page device to the final leaf. Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards; some soiling to the covers and slight wear to the spine; paper shelf label at head of spine covering a manuscript number and a couple of dates on front endpapers.First edition and only edition. Important book criticizing the art world in mid-16th century Italy, where personal collections of paintings, drawings, sculpture and jewelry were being formed by a growing number of wealthy patrons. Orologi, a relatively unknown critic satirizes both collectors and artists who were participating in "deceitful" (inganno) practices to bolster their ownership of pieces of art.
In an essay by Sally Hickson published in I castelli di yale, she writes, "This essay deals with only one aspect of Orologi's interest in art deception, and that is with the deception of art itself. In its… Leer más