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Cesare RIPA & Jean BAUDOUIN

Iconologie ou Explication nouvelle de plusieurs images, emblèmes et autres figures hyérogliphiques des vertus, des vices, des arts, des sciences, des causes naturelles, des humeurs différentes, des passions humaines, &c

Chez Mathieu Guillemot, Paris 1644, in-folio (23x35,5cm), (22) 204pp. ; 196pp., deux parties reliées en un volume.

New edition, adorned with two titles allegorical frontispiece unsigned and wrapped in water colors, 458 icons (147 for the first half and 284 for the second) in-text intaglio engraved by Jacques de Bie from the research and Cesar Ripa figures, highlighted in color (some are slightly tinted gold) and erased, as well as head and tail-pieces themselves also enhanced. Copy admirable, rare, fully adorned in water colors. Full brown calf at the time. Back with five nerves decorated coffered and gilded finials. Shaved head cover, scuffs and two corners bumped. Ripa's work is the most famous iconographic books, complete allegorical images to artists directory. Born of Christian and medieval art, and mixed with the contribution of the rebirth of the ancient art of the old regime is essentially programmatic; galore using symbols and pictures to create a secret meaning, reading and deciphering; art had thus quickly need emblems manuals, inexhaustibly manna to execute the works. Thus, according to the work of "Emile Male and Iconological Erwin Panofsky studies, intelligence of European painting of the XVII and XVIII centuries is inseparable from the book Ripa. This man originally published in 1593 and his guide translating Baldwin of 1636 illustrated, and enjoyed multiple editions, quickly became not only a must, but a standard for all future book of emblems. Bookplate the library I. Gosselin.

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