{"product_id":"fifteen-rare-full-page-plates-by-isabella-piccini","title":"Fifteen rare full-page plates by Isabella Piccini","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eIsabella Piccini (1644–1734), engraver.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eCanon Missæ ad usum episcoporum, ac praelatorum solemniter, vel privatè celebrantium.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eVenice [Venetiis], ex Typographia Balleoniana [= Baglioni], 1760.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eFolio (42 x 29,5 cm). Half-title, title and 140 numbered pages. Engraved frontispiece and fourteen further full-page engravings. Latin text printed in red and black in two columns, with plainchant on four-line staves, engraved vignettes and ornamental initials.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eContemporary brown calf, richly gilt with double borders, floral cornerpieces and distinct centrepieces on the two boards. Raised bands, gilt edges and red and cream block-printed endpapers. Two putti flank the coronet above each cartouche. The front shows a mitred bishop blessing, with a crozier. The rear shows a mitre, a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and a saltire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA very rare suite of fifteen full-page engravings by Isabella Piccini, published in a folio edition of the \u003ci\u003eCanon Missae\u003c\/i\u003e for bishops and prelates, printed in Venice in 1760, and lavishly bound in contemporary gold-tooled calf for a convent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eTrained by her father, the engraver Giacomo Piccini, she signed her early work with her birth name, Elisabetta, and took the name Isabella on entering the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce around 1666. From the convent she worked for more than six decades, engraving portraits, frontispieces and liturgical illustrations for publishers including Baglioni and Pezzana in Venice and the Remondini in Bassano.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003ePrinceton has published an Isabella Piccini inventory of 60 titles, but it lacks the rare \u003ci\u003eCanon Missae\u003c\/i\u003e with 15 plates that we offer here. Compiler David Rueger notes that the bibliography of Venetian missals issued by Baglioni, Poleti and Pezzana is complex and that illustrations were ‘evidently re-engraved by Piccini with great frequency’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe earliest edition in which we have traced the complete suite of fifteen full-page engravings is the \u003ci\u003eCanon Missæ\u003c\/i\u003e printed by Baglioni in Venice in 1731, three years before Isabella Piccini’s death. The series appeared again in 1735 and 1755 and in the present edition of 1760. Six of the full-page engravings bear Piccini’s name in full or abbreviated form. A seventh, the Crucifixion on p. 58, bears the initials ‘P. F.’ The other plates are identical in style, execution and size. The 1731 and 1760 impressions of the plates share the same hatching, signature and fine vertical line just beyond the signature, evidence that Baglioni used the same copperplate in both editions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eHer engravings for the present series closely follow compositions printed in Giovanni Maria Salvioni’s Roman editions. Her Ascension follows Pietro Valentini’s engraving, documented in the Roman \u003ci\u003eCanon Missae\u003c\/i\u003e of 1722. Her Assumption of the Virgin follows the composition designed and engraved by Pietro Antonio de’ Pietri, which appears in Salvioni’s edition of 1729. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCanon Missae\u003c\/i\u003e with Piccini’s plates is sparsely recorded in institutional catalogues, with none of the 1731 and 1760 editions in the US. SBN lists copies of the 1760 eidtion at the Biblioteca del Convento dei Cappuccini in Pozzuoli and the Biblioteca diocesana in Prato. A further copy is recorded at the Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Québec. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: NL;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/opac.sbn.it\/risultati-ricerca-avanzata\/-\/opac-adv\/index\/4\/ITICCURT1E011178?fieldvalue%5B1%5D=canon+missae+episcoporum+balleoniana\u0026amp;fieldaccess%5B1%5D=Keywords%3A1016\u0026amp;fieldstruct%5B1%5D=ricerca.parole_tutte%3A4%3D6\u0026amp;struct%3A1001=ricerca.parole_almeno_una%3A%40or%40\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSBN RT1E011178\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe heart on the back cover suggests St Augustine of Hippo as the bishop’s identity. The saltire and the inscription ‘S. Andrea.’ on the front flyleaf point towards a dedication to St Andrew. The Venetian convent of Augustinian nuns at Sant’Andrea della Zirada is a possible provenance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eCalf scuffed with rubbed corners and some fading to the gilt on the spine. Studs wanting. Sewing visible at either end and the gathering containing pp. 113–116 slightly loose. Some foxing and toning, three short marginal tears and a deposit on p. 40, possibly wax. Three small tears and two repaired tears in blank margins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eReferences:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eVýmola, Miroslav. Olomouc cathedral collections, 2009, pp. 189–194.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eAvram, Marina. Terra Sebus 1, 2009, pp. 379–392. · Auctions Art, lot 522 (1731 copy).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eBridwell Library, BRB1254 (1735). · Centre Joseph-Charles-Taché (1760).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eGastaldello, Giada. TECA 3, no. 3, 2013. · SG Collezione Stampe, Assumption.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eItalian state catalogue, Theological Virtues (1717) and Four Evangelists (1724).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003ePaolo Fornelli Grasso, Elisabetta Piccini ovvero Isabella monaca scultora (3 vols, 2018–2024), vol. II, p. 537, cited by SG Collezione Stampe for the Assumption of the Virgin (1731 edition, p. 90).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003ePrinceton, Piccini inventory, see: https:\/\/graphicarts.princeton.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2021\/08\/Piccini-inventory-chronological.pdf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif;\"\u003eGallerie dell’Accademia, Sant’Andrea della Zirada. · Augustinian emblem (Venice, 1751).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55810759164247,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/228-canon-missae-07-christ-carrying-the-cross-opening.jpg?v=1794401895","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/products\/fifteen-rare-full-page-plates-by-isabella-piccini","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}