Tacuinum Sanitatis (Sam Fogg) - Softcover

Bovey, Alixe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954901436 ISBN 13: 9780954901431

Publisher: Sam Fogg Rare Books, 2005

Synopsis

This book is a complete catalogue and commentary on a remarkable series of 130 colored drawings executed in North Italy, almost certainly Padua, in the 1450s by a group of artists in the circle of Andrea Mantegna. The drawings illustrate subjects from the Tacuinum Sanitatis or Table of Health. Subjects touched on include medicine, sport, farming, animal husbandry, natural history, shopping, cooking and manufacturing – constituting an extraordinary record of everyday life (and life style) in early Renaissance Italy. This manuscript is one of four known series of the kind, and the only one not published.

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The Tacuinum Sanitatis The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a richly illustrated guide to health. Made in Padua in the 1450s, it contains 130 miniatures illustrating substances and activities conducive to health and happiness, ranging from food and drink to singing, sleep and sex. Its scribe and artists enjoyed the patronage of a circle of humanists who flourished in the Veneto in the 1450s and 1460s, including the Venetian govern... Full description

Edition details

• Publisher: Sam Fogg Rare Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954901436
• ISBN 13: 9780954901431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64