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Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti. Vol. 3 Page 376.
Image of the first page of the biography of Giorgio Vasari, the author. Includes a woodblock illustration of the author who was also a painter and an architect himself. Text under the portrait reads "GIORGIO VASARI PITT. ET ARCHIT. ARETINO."…
Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti. Vol. 3 Page 176.
Image of the first page of the biography of the only woman artist, Properzia de' Rossi, included in this text. She was a sculptress from the city of Bologna. Text under portrait reads "M. PROPERTIA DE' ROSSI SCVLT. BOLOGNESE." Translation: "M.…
Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti. Title page.
Image of the title page. We can see from the title page that this edition is dedicated to Ferdinando II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany at the time of its publication.
Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti. Frontispiece.
Image of the engraved frontispiece by Bloemaert in which six figures surround an architectural element displaying the title of the book. Three figures sit in front of the architectural element while a figure who appears to be Medusa lies in front of…
Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti. Colophon.
Image of the colophon. The text of the colophon is written in Latin while the rest of the book is written in Italian. The colophon appears at the end of the third volume and includes a printer's mark.
October 15, 2020 – MS 24
For the penultimate entry in this series, Elettra Conoly ‘21 and Megan Szostak ‘22 post about their research on music in Tufts Univ. MS 24, a Dominican miscellany from Northern Italy.
This manuscript is a collection of writings and chants, with…
This manuscript is a collection of writings and chants, with…
MS 24, Ave virgo virginum. Text and translation.
Translation from Latin to English of the sequence Ave virgo virginum in Tufts University MS24, Dominican Miscellany.
MS 24 with isolated notational devices: Text, and Porrectus FlexusandTorculus neumes.
Close-up image of a section of notated music and text from MS 24. Isolated in the image are the text which appears under the corresponding neumes, and two types of neumes: the porrectus flexus and the torculus.
MS 24 with isolated notational devices: C Clef, and Punctum, Podatus, and Clivus neumes.
Close-up image of a section of notated music and text from MS 24. Isolated in the image are the Do Clef (C Clef), three types of neumes: the punctum, the podatus, and the clivus.