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Dell'arte pittorica libri VIII. : coll'aggiunta di Componimenti diversi

Chiusole, Adamo, 1729-1787 · 1768 · In Venezia : Presso Caroboli, e Pompeati Compagni · 34 pictures

Adamo Chiusole's eight-book Italian treatise on painting with appended miscellaneous writings, printed in Venice by Caroboli e Pompeati in 1768 for artists, students and connoisseurs. The plates shown are small letterpress woodcut headpieces and tailpieces — scrollwork cartouches, a flower-filled urn, crossed torches and arrows, a sunburst over books and drafting tools — usable as spot ornaments, dividers and chapter marks.

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