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[Book of Hours, Piazzetta] Officium, 1740
[Book of Hours, Piazzetta] Officium, 1740
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FIRST EDITION OF THE WONDERFUL PIAZZETTA’S BOOK OF HOURS

[Book of Hours, Piazzetta] Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V Pontificis Maximi Jussu editum. Venice: Pasquali, 1740.

16mo, full calf binding with smart gilt frame to covers, six raised bands spine with gilt fillets and gilt decorations to compartments, pp. [xl], 427, [5].

Entirely engraved edition: the text is engraved throughout by Angela Baroni; the large frontispiece, the 15 plates and the 20 tail-pieces are finely engraved by Marco Pitteri after drawings by Giambattista Piazzetta.

First edition of the delicious and delicate Hours of the Holy Virgin illustrated with full page copper plates after Piazzetta.

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, also called Giambattista Piazzetta (1682-1754), painter, illustrator and designer, was one of the outstanding Venetian artists of the 18th century. His art evolved from Italian Baroque traditions of the 17th century to a Rococo manner in his mature style. Piazzetta began his career in the studio of his father, Giacomo, a woodcarver. Soon after assisting the latter to carve the still-surviving bookcases of the library of the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo at Venice, he abandoned the family profession and began to study painting under Antonio Molinari. In about 1703 he went to Bologna, where he worked in the studio of Giuseppi Maria Crespi. He was back in Venice by 1711 and continued to work there until his death. In 1727 Piazzetta had been elected a member of the Clementine Academy of Bologna, and, on the foundation of the Venetian Academy in 1750, he had been made its first director and teacher of drawing from the nude.

Provenance: 1. 19th century ownership signature in blue ink at title-page. 2. Another 20th century signature Giorgia Bertoldi at the first fly-leaf.

References: Morazzoni, Il Libro illustrato veneziano del Settecento, Milano, 1943, p. 115-116: «Il libretto prezioso sotto ogni aspetto, essendo il risultato dell'armonica collaborazione di G.B. Piazzetta e di M. Pitteri, due artisti che in quel momento sono i piu perfetti rappresentanti della pittura e dell’incisione veneziana». T. Gasparrini Leporace, Il libro illustrato nel Settecento a Venezia, Venezia-Milano, 1955, no. 56. Boorsch, Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo, 98.
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A very fine copy.
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