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La Cena Segreta o Interrogatio Iohannis:. Con xilografie & decorazioni di Francesco Parisi. Introduzione di Carlo F.Carli.

Belluno, Venezia: Edizioni Colophon, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Three beautiful woodcuts numbered and signed in pencil by the artist. The Book of John the Evangelist or Secret Supper is a apocryphal Gospel in Latin, dating from the late Middle Ages.
Proposte d’arte Colophon [Colophonarte] has emerged as a major force publishing new artist’s books–in lavish, limited, editions–illustrated by noted European artists. The goal being to bring create living testimony to contemporary artististic-literary culture. The editor/publisher, Egidio Fiorin–animated by an equal passion for literature and visual art–explained his intentions thus: “(...) the book has been and is still now one of the fundamental pillars of advanced societies. But the book can be something more: it can be a work of art (...) an object which, in its paper, the composition of its text, its printing, the involvement of literary figures, artists and artisans of quality, represents an exaltation of human activity, of human capacity for reflection, sublimation and synthesis”. Fine in Fine DJ. Tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Quarterbound, red cloth spine, white paper boards, gilt decorative elements, laid in plates. fo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 16 of 45. Item #7286

Price: $2,000.00