WHAT IS THE EX LIBRIS?
The ex-libris in Italy are not as popular as in Northern Europe, even if is a fine opportunity to designate the property of the book, because it witnesses a relationship with the book and is not restricted to bibliophiles, but also to anyone who cares about the heritage of humanity.
When man began to mark stone with signs that allowed to recognize himself, he expressed the need to characterize the materials he used, he documented his property with his own peculiarities. So the booklet was born with the need f of the reader to underline the choice of specific books and the interests that brought him to create his personal library. Ex-Libris (latin word for booklet), literally "from books", is a multiple on paper, with mottoes, drawings and symbols that can represent the individual owner of the book, or the association, the group, the category. For centuries the booklet remained buried among the books of austere aristocratic libraries or in the scriptoria of the monasteries. Only in the second half of the XIX century, it became a personal document to collect throughout the West Word, like any other object of artistic, cultural or historical interest. In Italy the first article on ex libris was published in the magazine "The Bibliofilo", in 1881 by Carlo Lozzi, while the first competition in Italy for an ex libris was launched in Milan by the municipality in 1905.
You can often find the aim for which it was created, as this one dedicated to Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, alias Palladio, in the memorial of 500 years of his birth, with the only philantropic aim to renew the atmosphere of that period, when the mobile letters for printing were disseminated.
Thanks to the activities of publishers-printers, first German and then Venetian, the printed books were disseminated in Europe. Works as the Bible or the classic latin literary ones were printed in important towns as Venice, where worked famous Aldo Manuzio.
In Vicenza the first printer was Leonardo Achates. He knew the technique of Guttemberg and moved from Basel to Santorso (VI), around the middle of the seventh decade of the XV century. Here he published the Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca, that can still be consulted in the Public Library of Vicenza still. In the XVI century the art of printing was greatly disseminated and the same patron of Palladio, Giangiorgio Trissino, used it to actively participate in the contemporary debate on Italian language.
Many excellent artists dealt with booklets, first using the pen, then techniques of printing like wood and metal carving, silk-screen, off-set, up to the most recent as linocut, photoengraving, digital-graphic.
Therefore, creating an ex libris for Palladio will be an opportunity not to be missed for the artist who wants to establish an ideal bridge between past and present and to seal it with love for the printed book.
The ex-libris in Italy are not as popular as in Northern Europe, even if is a fine opportunity to designate the property of the book, because it witnesses a relationship with the book and is not restricted to bibliophiles, but also to anyone who cares about the heritage of humanity.
When man began to mark stone with signs that allowed to recognize himself, he expressed the need to characterize the materials he used, he documented his property with his own peculiarities. So the booklet was born with the need f of the reader to underline the choice of specific books and the interests that brought him to create his personal library. Ex-Libris (latin word for booklet), literally "from books", is a multiple on paper, with mottoes, drawings and symbols that can represent the individual owner of the book, or the association, the group, the category. For centuries the booklet remained buried among the books of austere aristocratic libraries or in the scriptoria of the monasteries. Only in the second half of the XIX century, it became a personal document to collect throughout the West Word, like any other object of artistic, cultural or historical interest. In Italy the first article on ex libris was published in the magazine "The Bibliofilo", in 1881 by Carlo Lozzi, while the first competition in Italy for an ex libris was launched in Milan by the municipality in 1905.
You can often find the aim for which it was created, as this one dedicated to Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, alias Palladio, in the memorial of 500 years of his birth, with the only philantropic aim to renew the atmosphere of that period, when the mobile letters for printing were disseminated.
Thanks to the activities of publishers-printers, first German and then Venetian, the printed books were disseminated in Europe. Works as the Bible or the classic latin literary ones were printed in important towns as Venice, where worked famous Aldo Manuzio.
In Vicenza the first printer was Leonardo Achates. He knew the technique of Guttemberg and moved from Basel to Santorso (VI), around the middle of the seventh decade of the XV century. Here he published the Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca, that can still be consulted in the Public Library of Vicenza still. In the XVI century the art of printing was greatly disseminated and the same patron of Palladio, Giangiorgio Trissino, used it to actively participate in the contemporary debate on Italian language.
Many excellent artists dealt with booklets, first using the pen, then techniques of printing like wood and metal carving, silk-screen, off-set, up to the most recent as linocut, photoengraving, digital-graphic.
Therefore, creating an ex libris for Palladio will be an opportunity not to be missed for the artist who wants to establish an ideal bridge between past and present and to seal it with love for the printed book.
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