Von der Artzney bayder Glück (De Remediis Utriusque Fortuna) (On the Remedies of Good and Evil Fortune)
1532
Artist, German, 1500 or before - c. 1536
Author, Italian, 1304 - 1374
Translator, German, 1484 - 1545
Translator, German (?), active early 16th century
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Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 257 woodcut illustrations, including one portrait of the author and including full page woodcuts on the recto and verso of each title page; white-on-black initials, tailpieces, and borderpieces throughout.
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (bk): 30.8 x 21 x 5.6 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.23.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Thomae Prasl Capellani Wolfpu[e?] rgensis, 1673; (Daniela Laube Fine Art, New York); Purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 31 b.
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, nos. 63 and 64.
Bibliography
2007
Daniela Laube Fine Art, Catalogue 3, 2007, no. 3.
Inscriptions
in front cover in ink: F. Petrarch; on title page in ink: Ex libris/Thomae Prasi Capellari Wolfpu(e?)rgensis / 1673; in ink on top of text block: SEGGER