1950s Piero Fornasetti Astronomici Plate

Description

Astronomici means Astronomics. This is a rare pattern in black and white with gold highlights.

Mark: A moon and sun … more Astronomici means Astronomics. This is a rare pattern in black and white with gold highlights.

Mark: A moon and sun within a circle with smiling faces with scattered stars and the pattern name Astronomici written across edge of circle; above right the Fornasetti hand and brush and Fornasetti. Milano/Made in Italy.

Reference: Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Patrick Mauries, Page 220, color illustration of the complete set of twelve, the author writes, Astronomical Plates, a set of twelve made in 1955.

Fornasetti looked at astronomy in 17th-century terms when it was not distinguished from astrology. Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 614, #162 for several illustrated examples. less