Les Images, ou Tableaux de platte peinture : des deux Philostrates . et les Statues de Callistrate, mis en françois par Blaise de Vigénère . enrichis d'arguments et d'annotations, reveus et corrigez sur l'original par un docte personnage de ce temps en la langue grecque . avec des épigrammes sur chacun d'iceux par Artus Thomas, sieur d'Embry. Original edition.

Philostratus ; Philostratus sophistes, grandson of Philostrate de Lemnos.; Philostrate de Lemnos; Thomas de Leu, Gaultier, Gaspard Isaac, after Antoine Caron, artists

Published by Paris : Vve M. Guillemot et M. Guillemot., 1629

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Folio. 26 x 39.5cm. (8) ff., 921pp., (1) p., (23) ff. Contemporary calf covers, restored with matching goatskin spine by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.OCLC Number: 457673221. Numerous engravings.The Icones of Philostratus the elder and those of his younger relative and name-sake provide us with detailed rhetorical descriptions of incidents in Greek mythology as depicted by ancient artists or as the author imagined they might be depicted. The elder Philostratus particularly values realistic representation and dramatic contrasts between a central personage and surrounding figures; the younger is also concerned with the expression of emotion (he includes Medea and Marsyas among his subjects). From the time of the classical revival in the 15th century these works were of great interest to artists and historians of art. After the discovery of the wall-paintings of Herculaneum, Pompeii and other ancient sites, which revealed actual examples of the subjects presented imaginatively by Philostratus (for example, Achilles and Cheiron, Perseus and Andromeda, Narcissus, Heracles and the pygmies), their historical usefulness was confirmed; and they are cited in the art-theoretic works of Winkelmann and Goethe.The plates show attempted reconstructions of some of the scenes described in the texts. Sixty-five full-page illustrations are assigned to the Icones of the first Philostratus; two plates to the Icones and Heroicus of the second Philostratus; and one full-page illustration to the Descriptiones or Statuae of Callistratus. Fort in-folio, titre frontispice, (8) ff., 921pp., (1) p., (23) ff., veau fauve époque.Illustré de gravures sur cuivre à pleine page, par Thomas de Leu, Gaultier, Gaspard Isaac, d'après Antoine Caron.(Chatelain, Livres d'emblèmes, n°66).[Non collationné]. Seller Inventory # 51-4652

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Title: Les Images, ou Tableaux de platte peinture :...

Publisher: Paris : Vve M. Guillemot et M. Guillemot.

Publication Date: 1629

Condition: Good