[Iconic Painting]. Iconological Dictionary. Allegories and s - Lot 232

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[Iconic Painting]. Iconological Dictionary. Allegories and symbols by Cesare Ripa and Jean Baudoin. By Virginie Bar and Dominique Brème. Editions Faton, 1999. Two volumes in-4 (30x23 cm). Volume I: Dictionary of Allegories and Symbols, 340 pages abundantly illustrated, cloth and illustrated dust jacket. Volume II : Facsimile of L'Iconologie by Cesare Ripa and Jean Baudoin. Copper engravings by Jacques De Bie. Published by Mathieu Guillemot in 1644. 424 pages. Paperback, illustrated soft cover. The two works are gathered in an illustrated box. Iconology is essential to the understanding of symbolic representations in painting, sculpture, and all graphic arts of this period. Virginie Bar and Dominique Brème list all the allegories and attributes to produce a dictionary in two parts: an alphabetical index of the allegories (more than 600), with their attributes, and another index (more than 1,200) with the allegories to which they can relate.
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