{"id":9177,"date":"2011-04-07T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9177"},"modified":"2011-04-07T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T01:24:34","slug":"sibilla-by-giulio-aristide-sartorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/07\/sibilla-by-giulio-aristide-sartorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibilla by Giulio Aristide Sartorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sartorio1.jpg\" alt=\"sartorio1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the paintings of Giulio Aristide Sartorio were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/11\/the-art-of-giulio-aristide-sartorio-1860-1932\/\">featured here<\/a> a while back I wasn&#8217;t aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/sibillapoemadram00sart\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sibilla: poema drammatico in quattro atti<\/em><\/a>, a book written and illustrated by the artist and published in a numbered edition of 1333 copies in 1922. Not content to merely write a lengthy dramatic poem then add some illustrations, Sartorio hand-crafted some 240 pages, text as well as illustrations, in what looks like woodcut printing but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattiajona.com\/schede\/sartoriosibilla.html\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> tells us was a style of relief etching which gives a woodcut appearance. At least half the book comprises full-page illustrations so it&#8217;s no surprise that Sartorio spent the best part of a decade working on it. The copy at the Internet Archive is one of the original printings, signed by the author\/artist and his publisher, Ettore Cozzani. This page shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattiajona.com\/schede\/sartoriodis.html#Anchor121247\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary sketches<\/a> for what has to be one of the final breaths of <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> excess.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sartorio2.jpg\" alt=\"sartorio2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sartorio3.jpg\" alt=\"sartorio3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sartorio4.jpg\" alt=\"sartorio4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sartorio5.jpg\" alt=\"sartorio5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/pirate1-150x150.jpg\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/30\/lussuria-invidia-superbia\/\">Lussuria, Invidia, Superbia<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/11\/the-art-of-giulio-aristide-sartorio-1860-1932\/\">The art of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860\u20131932<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the paintings of Giulio Aristide Sartorio were featured here a while back I wasn&#8217;t aware of Sibilla: poema drammatico in quattro atti, a book written and illustrated by the artist and published in a numbered edition of 1333 copies in 1922. Not content to merely write a lengthy dramatic poem then add some illustrations, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/07\/sibilla-by-giulio-aristide-sartorio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sibilla by Giulio Aristide Sartorio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[2433,136,2432],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-ettore-cozzani","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-giulio-aristide-sartorio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}