Metamorphoses

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Overview:

Title: Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid
Year: 1505
Publisher: Francesco Mazali (Parma)
Pages: 166
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Metamorphoses
Notes:
- Second Parma edition, but the only one under Mazali's imprint.
- Christie's: 59 woodcut illustrations, including three repetitions, most signed "ia" or "N". "All but four woodcuts are from the very rare Rosso-Giunta Ovid edition published in Venice in 1497". These illustrations for Ovid are among the best examples of the 'classic' style influenced by Andrea Mantegna, as discussed by Hind. He considers the possibility that the 'ia' is a signature of the block cutter Jacob of Strassburg, known to have been working at Venice about 1500 ... Hind concludes that 'if any of the Venetian illustrations are Benedetto Montagna's design, nothing is more likely to be his than the Ovid.' Subsequent editions of Ovid were heavily dependent on these blocks (Mortimer).
- Data from Christie's Auction House.