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Lot 239
DA VINCI, LEONARDO The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and His Circle America. Arranged and Introduced by Carlo Pedretti. Catalog...
. Florence: Giunti-Barbèra, 1993. One of 998 sets. Brown leather-covered clamshell case with gold tooling. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (45 x 31.5 cm); 115 pp. text with 80 plates with facsimile reproductions of the drawings, recto and verso An immaculate set.
This collection of drawings in facsimile, arranged and introduced by Carlo Pedretti and catalogued by Patricia Tutty-Coohill, is particularly important for the amount of unpublished material. It contains the complete series of caricatures in the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library consisting of 104 copies made in the 16th century directly from Leonardo originals (mostly lost) and as such represents first-hand documents for the study of the complex problem of Leonardo's preoccupation with physiognomy at the time of his studies for the "Last Supper", circa 1495. The publication also includes 15 autograph drawings, 8 of which are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Altogether about 200 drawings are reproduced arranged on the 80 plates.
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