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 scholars and collectors of the arts. The plates here are woodcut initial letters set in square blocks of foliage, scrolls and grotesque masks, printed heavily in black — usable as drop caps, monograms or ornament borrowed from the leaf and tendril fill.
