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Record number
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05/1366
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| Title | La Processione Del Doge Nella Domenica Delle Palme Incisa in Venezia per Mattio Pagan (1556-69.) |
| Imprint | Venezia: Ferd. Ongania editore, Anno MDCCCLXXX. |
| Physical Description | [1] f., [8] pl.; 555×675 mm. |
| Physical Description Note | The title leaf and the leaves carrying the reproductions of the woodcuts are loose within the covers. The reproduced cuts are tipped in. They show the originals as lettered A-H. |
| Content Format Note | [T.p.] - [Plates]. |
| Summary Note | The original woodcuts reproduced here were probably intended to be displayed as one continuous sequence. They were lettered A-H and carried Latin captions identifying the persons and things represented: A. eight standards; B. six silver trumpets; C. ambassadors' servants and trumpets; D. servants of the Doge, and canons; E. the Patriarch, the white candle and ceremonial hat; F. the chair, the cushion; G. the Doge, the umbrella, ambassadors; H. senior officials.
The set may be viewed as a generic representation of a Dogal procession; but the standards in cut A are those of the Priuli, implying that the set represents either Doge Lorenzo Priuli (1556-9) or Doge Girolamo Priuli (1559-67). |
| Responsibility Note | None of the reproductions is signed. The original block G carries the imprint, top left, 'In Venezia per Matthio pagano in Frezzaria al segno della Fede'. Pagano was probably not the woodblock-cutter but the printer and publisher. |
| Subject | Rulers - Processions - Festivals - Fetes - Pageants - Ceremonies - Celebrations - Italy - Venice - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Woodcuts - Italy - Venice - 16th century - Renaissance
Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century |
| Name as Subject | Pagan, Mattia, fl. 1538-1562
Priuli, family
Venice. Doge |
| References | M. Bury, The print in Italy 1550-1620 (2001), no.121; D. Rosand and M. Muraro, Titian and the Venetian woodcut [exhibition catalogue] (1976), p.281-3, no. 89; J.D. Passavant, Le peintre-graveur (1860-4), vol. 6, no.98.
A survey of pageantry was B. Holme, Princely feasts and festivals: five centuries (1988). |
| Binding Note | 19th-century paper-covered boards, cloth-covered spine; the upper cover printed identically with the title leaf and carrying a printed label reading 'Edition de 100 exemplaires - N.' (to which the number '34' has been added in blue pencil in the Royal Academy's copy). Inside the upper cover is pasted a printed label, which reads, 'Di prossimo pubblicazione: La processione del Doge nella Domenica delle Palme impressa in Venezia per Mattio Pagan in otto grandi Tavole. Illustrazione di Federico Stefani. Venezia, Agosto 1880. Ferd. Ongania Edit.' |
| Provenance | Purchased for RA Library in 1880 (see RA Annual Report for 1880, p. 42). |
| Contributors | Pagan, Mattia, fl. 1538-1562
Ongania, Ferdinando, 1842 - 1911, publisher
Stefani, Federico, fl. ca. 1880? |
