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...books on exhibition are nearly all from the library of Philip Hofer '21, of New York. These are supplemented by a dozen Sacre Rappresentazioni, printed in Florence, which belong to the Harvard College Library, and a few books from the Print Collection of the Fogg Museum. On the wall above the cases containing the books, cuts taken from books have been hung. Books and single cuts together give a very comprehensive idea of book-illustration in the sixteenth century...
...Library's collection of Florentine picture books is made up of the Savonarola collection, the collection of Sacre Rappresentazioni, and the Newman and Fairfax Murray collections. Florentine picture books are ilustrated by fifteenth and sixteenth country woodcuts, which represent the story of Italian book illustration. They are, with only a few exceptions, small quartos of only a few leaves each. They are religious books, plays and books of popular poems books largely for religious instruction and pictures were used not so much to illustrate particular passages as to inspire the reader with a feeling of devotion. The illustrations are complete...
Miss Laura H. Dudley discusses Florentine woodcuts; there is a short notice of the "Sacre Rappresentazioni" from the point of view of the student of the drama; and Mr. George Norbet Kates discusses "Paradise in the fifteenth century", as illustrated in one of Savonarola's sermons and by various fifteenth century painters. Letters from Mrs. Henry R. Newman, Miss Margaret Jackson of Wellesley College, and Dr. Denman H. Ross on Mr. Henry R. Newman, the collector of the Savonarola books, give an added personal interest to the exhibition...
...Savonarola collection, consisting of tracts and sermons by Savonarola and writings for and against him, and the Sacre Rappresentazioni, sacred plays, are the most important of the illustrated books printed in Florence during this period, and the even elution of the woodcut may be studied to advantage in them. The earliest cuts showed only a few figures depicted with the greatest economy of line. Later, more figures were employed, backgrounds were elaborated, and an attempt made to achieve realism and expressiveness. The Sacre Rappresentazioni contains cuts made from the original blocks, copies of the originals, cuts made for later editions...
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