The Art of Pierangelo Boog

Freitag, 24. Juni 2022

THE NIGHTS OF STRAPAROLA ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD ROBERT HUGHES, Volume II

Not much is known of Straparola's life save for a few facts regarding his published works. He was likely born some time around 1485 in Caravaggio, Italy (on the Lombard plain east of Milan). However, nothing more is known of his life until 1508 when he is found to be in Venice where he signed his name "Zoan" on the title page of his Opera nova de Zoan Francesco Straparola da Caravaggio novamente stampata (New Works).

STRAPAROLA

Frontispiece:

ELEVENS NIGHT, SECOND FABLE. BERTUCCIO'S BRIDE.

SEVENTH NIGHT, FIRST FABLE. THE DEMON HORSE

SEVENTH NIGHT, SECOND FABLE. ON THE HERMIT'S ISLE

EIGHTH NIGHT, FIFTH FABLE. THE RUBY RING

NINTH NIGHT, FIRST FABLE. IN THE QUEEN'S TOWER.

NINTH NIGHT, THIRD FABLE. FRANCESCO SFORZA.

NINTH NIGHT, SIXTH FABLE. QUINQUINO'S MIRACLE

TWELVTH NIGHT, SECOND FABLE. MORE KNAVE THAN FOOL.

THIRTEENTH NIGHT, EIGHTH FABLE. THE TART

THIRTEENTH NIGHT, ELEVENTH FABLE. A CLERICAL MEETING.

Dienstag, 21. Juni 2022

THE NIGHTS OF STRAPAROLA ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD ROBERT HUGHES, Volume I

Edward Robert Hughes RWS (5 November 1851 – 23 April 1914) was a British painter, who primarily worked in watercolours, but also produced a number of oil paintings. He was influenced by his uncle and artist, Arthur Hughes who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and worked closely with one of the Brotherhood's founders, William Holman Hunt. (Wikipedia)

E.R. Hughes

Giovanni Francesco "Gianfrancesco" Straparola, also known as Zoan or Zuan Francesco Straparola da Caravaggio (ca. 1485?-1558), was an Italian writer of poetry, and collector and writer of short stories.^[3] Some time during his life, he migrated from Caravaggio to Venice^[4] where he published a collection of stories in two volumes called The Facetious Nights or The Pleasant Nights. This collection includes some of the first known printed versions of fairy tales in Europe, as they are known today.

Straparola bedeutet »Wortschwall« oder einen, der übermäßig viel redet, Streparola dagegen einen, der sehr geräuschvoll redet. Ein italienischer Familienname, der so lautet, ist bisher, soviel ich weiß, nicht nachgewiesen worden, es ist auch nicht wahrscheinlich, daß man einen solchen dahinter suchen darf. Es dürfte sich vielmehr entweder um einen in Padua, wo Giovan Francesco aus Caravaggio wahrscheinlich studiert hat, erworbenen studentischen Spitznamen handeln, der ursprünglich Streparola hieß und später von seinem Träger in »Straparola« verschönt wurde, oder aber um einen jener bizarren Namen, wie sie sich die Mitglieder der literarischen und gelehrten Gesellschaften beilegten, die damals in Italien wie Pilze aus der Erde wuchsen und sich Akademien nannten. (Hans Floerke)

(Frontispiece) THIRD NIGHT, FOURTH FABLE. THE SIREN

PROEM. THE PALACE OF MURANO

FIRST NIGHT, FOURTH FABLE. DORALICE IN THE KING'S CHAMBRE

SECOND NIGHT, FIRST FABLE. THE PIG PRINCE

SECOND NIGHT, SECOND FABLE. THE SCHOLAR'S VENGEANCE.

THIRD NIGHT, THIRD FABLE. BIANCABELLA AND THE SERPENT

THIRD NIGHT, FIFTH FABLE. ISOTA AND TRAVAGLINO

FOURTH NIGHT, SECOND FABLE. THR TRIAL OF THE SERPENT

FIRST NIGHT, FIRST FABLE. GOLDEN HAIR

FIFTH NIGHT, FOURTH FABLE. THE CONJURATION OF THE KITE

Freitag, 17. Juni 2022

THE FIR-TREE FAIRY BOOK illustrated by ALEXANDER POPINI

Alexander Popini (1878 - 1962) was a Romanian-born american illustrator. It is known that he married in the UK in 1903. Possibly entered the USA via Ellis Island in 1911. Illustrated books and some motoring postcards.

The drawings of Romanian-born illustrator and sculptor Alexander Popini (1878-1962) graced many magazines of the 1920s, both "little" and popular, including Pearson's Magazine, The Century, and The Masses. In addition, he produced art for advertisements and illustrated several books including Vilhjalmur Steffanson's Ultima Thule: Further Mysteries of the Arctic (1940). Popini was fascinated by aviation and in 1916 he sculpted a hydro-aeromaid figure as a trophy for that year's New York Flying Yacht Club race around Manhattan. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War I.

THE PIED PIPER

THE FIR-TREE

THE BABES IN THE WOOD

ALEXANDER JONES

He shook his head and was going to reply, when she began to run around the table to show how the sun went, at the same time crying loudly, “West, west, west!”