Petrarch's Triumphs
TOP
ROW The images shown here are from Bernard Quarich's edition
of Works of The Italian Engravers of the Fifteenth Century, with introduction
by G.W.Reid. The first book in this series was devoted to three sequences
of images,
Il Libro del Monte Sancto di Dio, 1477
La Divina Commedia of Dante 1481
and The Triumphs of Petrarch.
Reid denies the credit for the Petrarch prints to Nicoletto da Modena
and supports the authorship of Fra Filippo Lippi.
The
Six States of Man
For
each State - the Italian poet Petrarch wrote a "Triumph".
(the
combination of Passion and Reason).
Love
Chastity
Death
Fame
Time
Eternity
This extends
to other illustrations of the Triumphs -
to the Triumphs of Apollo and the Muses
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MIDDLE
ROW
01 a woodcut
from the second edition of Pacini's edition of the Triumphs printed in
Florence in 1508.
02 The Triumph
of Death from the Predica dell'Arte del ben morire , Florence c1500.
03 Willem van Haecht, an envgraving of 1577 of The Triumph of Peace ,
36 x 44cms.
BOTTOM ROW
01 two linked images The Triumph of Apollo and the Nine Muses , from Geofrey
Tory's Champ Fleury ,Paris 1529 1488. "I will make
below a drawing wherein Apollo, in a chariot of gold and precious stones,
shall be drawn in triumph by the Nine Muses, the seven Liberal Arts, the
four Cardinal Virtues shall hold the four corners of the chariot, and
the three `Graces shall lead its three horses...." Champ Fleury in
the Dover edition/ translation , New York, 1967.
02 The French
edition of Petrarch's Triumphs (Janot, Paris ,1539) was
illustrated with six emblematic woodcuts, here the Triumph of Time . The
designs dispense with the clutter of the multi-figured composition in
favour of an economic arrangements of objects. The size of the original
page is 9 x 14cms, but reproduced larger here so you can see the detail.
from
Petrarch's Sonnets, Venice 1549, the Triumph of Death
from
Petrarch's Sonnets, Venice 1522, the Triumph of Love |