Odoardo Fialetti (Print made by)

Interior Scene with Sketching Class, from Il vero modo et ordine per dissegnar tutte le parti et membra del corpo humano

1608

etching

paper

111 x 152 mm (sheet, trimmed close to platemark)

Signed lower left: 'OF F; A 2', and numbered: 'No. 208'

no

Stephan Delhaes (Lugt 665a, Lugt 761)

Bartsch XVII.298.210
Bury 2001, no. 143

A print from a manual of instruction in drawing, published by Justus Sadeler. Its history and composition is difficult to understand. Bartsch claimed Il vero modo was a modest set of nine plates and a title page, dedicated to Cesare d'Este, published in Venice in 1608. These nine plates for a book consisting of a series of geometrical schemata for cunstructing heads, accompanied by plates showing ways to draw faces. According to Michael Bury in 2001, at some point, there was a decision to change the project: what Bartsch described as a second large book seems in fact to have been a revision, involving the creation of more plates. A new title page, Tutt le parti del corpo humano, and a plate with the dedication to Giovanni Grimani were added, while most of the plates with geometrical schemata were eliminated. Fialetti's plates provided the beginner with models in printed form. The model drawings were numbered from 1 to 32. This view of a studio was added to the expanded edition.

6906

Prints: Italian: 16th century: Mounted I