BALDINUCCI, Filippo - Lot 32

BALDINUCCI, Filippo Vita del cavaliere Gio Lorenzo Bernino scultore, architetto, e pittore Florence, Vincenzo Vangelisti, 1682 THE VERY FIRST MONOGRAPH OF THE BERNIN ORIGINAL EDITION, dedicated to Queen Christine of Sweden In-4 (272 x 195 mm) PRINTING: copy printed on fine, strong, thick paper COLLATION : π4 a2 A-O4 ILLUSTRATION: 1 portrait of Bernini engraved in intaglio by Arnold van Westerhout after Jean-Baptiste Gaullus, 9 unsigned plates including 4 fold-outs relating to Saint Peter's in Rome EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDING. Ivory vellum, smooth spine, blue edges PROVENANCE : Marquis Giuseppe Arconati Visconti (wet stamp on title page; 1797-1873) Black stains on h2 without affecting the text This is the very first monograph on the great sculptor, architect and painter Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) written by the Italian art historian Filippo Baldinucci (1625-1697). It was commissioned just after the artist's death by Queen Christine of Sweden - then in exile in Rome -, to whom he dedicates this edition, as well as by various friends and patrons of Bernini. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Berlin Kat., 2670 -- Cicognara 2197 -- Georges Duplessis, Essai d'une bibliographie générale des beaux-arts, 1866, no. 156