Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua : per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell' arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all' antica loro perfezione
Filippo Baldinucci's biographical history of Italian painters, sculptors and architects from Cimabue onward, printed in Florence by Santi Franchi from 1681 for antiquarians, collectors and artists. The plates here are woodcut initial letters filled with foliage, grotesque masks and curling acanthus, printed with heavy inked lines on toned paper, usable as drop caps, ornament fragments or texture in display typography.
