Memorie, imprese, e ritratti de' signori Accademici Gelati de Bologna

Accademia dei Gelati (Bologna, Italy), Capponi, Giovan Battista, 1620-1675, Zani, Valerio, conte, d. 1696, Barberini, Francesco, 1597-1679, dedicatee, Otteren, Leonardus Henricus van, engraver, Tinti, Lorenzo, d. 1672, engraver, Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602, ill, Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718, ill, Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R · 1672 · In Bologna : Per li Manolessi · 257 pictures

A 1672 Bologna folio printed by the Manolessi for the Accademia dei Gelati, gathering the members' devices, mottoes, biographies and portraits, dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini. The plates run to emblem shields with Latin mottoes in strapwork cartouches, engraved portrait busts in oval frames, and foliate woodcut initials, giving designers a stock of frames, monogram letters and symbolic vignettes.

Devices (Heraldry) -- Early works to 1800 · Emblems -- Early works to 1800 · Emblem books, Italian -- Italy -- 17th century · Bologna (Italy) -- Learned institutions and societies · Emblem books -- Italy -- 17th century

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