Tacuinum Sanitatis by Alixe Bovey

Tacuinum Sanitatis by Alixe Bovey

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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.

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Tacuinum Sanitatis by Alixe Bovey

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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ISBN 13 9780954901431
ISBN 10 0954901436
Title Tacuinum Sanitatis
Author Alixe Bovey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Sam Fogg Rare Books
Year published 2005-06-01
Number of pages 64
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.