Battista Pittoni, Lodovico Dolce: Imprese di diversi principi, duchi, signori, e d’altri personaggi et huomini illustri di Battista Pittoni pittore vicentino. Con alcune stanze, sonetti di Lodovico Dolce (Venedig 1602) (FONTES 33)

Abstract

The introduction treats the impresa Albums of Pittoni with regard to the question, „What is an impresa?“. There follows bibliographical information about impresa studies. Once established what an impresa is, there remain other perspectives from which to examine the impresa books of Battista Pittoni. As an introduction, the text considers a variety of topics, including the history of the impresa book; invention and illustration: the parts of Pittoni and of Dolce; Battista Pittoni and his disegno morbido; the importance of Battista Pittoni’s Imprese: beyond emblematics; Pittoni’s Imprese and the arts; artists’s imprese: Titian and Pittoni; architecture in the Imprese; Battista Pittoni and Hieronymus Cock; the decorative imagery of Battista Pittoni; and, in conclusion: the impresa book as a social medium and as a mirror of social, political, and cultural history. Following the introduction is found biographical and bibliographical information about the authors, Lodovico Dolce and Battista Pittoni, and then links to online sources for emblems and imprese. The electronic indexing (Erschliessung) of the book is accomplished by the following elements: a transcription of all of the written parts of the work in full text form; an index of impresa bearers in the 1602 edition; an index of the decorative and ornamental motives of the impresa frames; an index of the mottos of the imprese; a picture index of the imprese