Regolo (dello scrivere)

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Valerio Spada

Associated Names
Valerio Spada

Artist, Florentine, 1613 - 1688

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound MS with 32 p. of calligraphy examples and related drwgs. in pen and brown ink, some with gold ink, and many w/ initial, head-, and tail-piece illustrations

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Kimbell Art Foundation, Courtesy Ruth Carter Stevenson

  • Dimensions

    page size: 26.6 x 19.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1987.40.60

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pietro, Principe Ginori-Conti

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Page with Calligraphic Ornament in "Regolo (dello scrivere)".

Bibliography

1981

  • Massar 1981, p.267 and cat.no.7.

Inscriptions

signed and dated in pen and brown ink on dedication page; various notations and dealer marks on inside back and front covers