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CONGREGAZIONE DEGLI ARTISTI.
See original version (French)
28
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CONGREGAZIONE DEGLI ARTISTI.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
CONGREGAZIONE DEGLI ARTISTI.
Various prayers recited by the members of the Congregation of Artists in Reggio, as shown in the Index at the end of this volume.
(Italy, Reggio), (1816).
Small folio. (1)-61-(2) handwritten pages in brown ink on laid paper, text framed in red ink, index at the end. Green sheepskin morocco binding, spine with 6 raised bands, covers decorated in the neoclassical style of the period with gilt medallions and friezes, antique or imperial gilt profile in the spandrels, gilt CA monogram on the front cover and the date 1816 on the back (binding slightly scuffed).
An Italian manuscript produced in Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy) in its binding bearing the gilded emblem of the city’s Congregation of Artists, certainly produced towards the end of the Napoleonic era.
A valuable record of the Italian ‘Congregazione degli artisti’ re-emerging after the fall of the Empire, and no doubt in this instance owing to Reggio’s annexation to the Duchy of Modena, given the date stamped on the binding.
This manuscript may be a ‘refoundation’ document and may have been commissioned, together with its binding, to mark the re-establishment of the pious congregations by the ducal authorities.
A collection of specific prayers recited by the brothers of the Artists’ Congregations, which had existed since the 17th century; these were a kind of pious and guild-like brotherhood under the patronage of the Church, comprising artisans practising the liberal arts (tailors, bakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers).
The binding dates from the Italian Restoration period and reflects the imperial and neoclassical styles of the time. According to the archives of the city of Reggio, this congregation ceased to exist around 1824.
Unsigned manuscript.
CONGREGATION OF ARTISTS. PRAYER.
See original version (French)
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