Folio portraits of artists, Carravagiom Raphael, Sarto, Penni et al.

Fine folio including early and finely executed portraits of Renaissance artists by Joachim von Sandrart. Included are portraits of: Mino da Fiesole; Giuliano da Sangallo; Domenico Puligo; Andrea da Fiesole, and Properzia de' Rossi. The latter is of particular historical significance in that Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490 Bologna – 1530 Bologna) was a ground-breaking female Italian Renaissance sculptor, the only woman to receive a biography in Vasari's Lives of the Artists. According to Vasari, she taught herself to carve by working with peach-stones. At the end of her life, she was sought out by the Pope Clement VII, who unfortunately found her dead. Sometimes referred to as the “German Vasari,” Joachim von Sandrart, born in Frankfurt, trained first as a printmaker, notably in Nuremberg, and in Prague with Aegidius Sadeler. He then studied painting from 1625 on, originally in the studio of Gerrit van Honthorst...

W.E. Henley, illustrated by William Nicholson London Types. London, William Heinemann, 1898. Publisher's device to title, 12 full-page colour lithographed illustrations by N...

Selection of early Modernist Art, mostly French, 20th century. From left to right, as seen in the first photo, they are: 1) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec color lithograph or print, circa 1960s. It measures 26.5"H x 23"W. 2) 50th Anniversary of the Legendary 1925 Exposition Art...

Early 19th century print on laid paper. Two apostles after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino). Good color. Some subtle wrinkles to the paper. Framed.