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Dialogo di m. Lodovico Dolce : nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diuersità, e proprietà de i colori

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568, Sessa, Giovanni Battista, fl. 1546-1602, Sessa, Melchiorre, fl. 1546-1600 · 1565 · In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa, et fratelli · 6 pictures

Lodovico Dolce's dialogue on the qualities, varieties and symbolism of colours, printed in Venice by the Sessa brothers in 1565 for humanist and courtly readers. The woodcuts are printer's ornaments: inhabited initials with foliage, lizards and small nude figures, a hatched vignette of Pegasus in a strapwork cartouche, and narrow tailpieces with masks and scrollwork.

Colors · Symbolism of colors

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