Pomp. Gaurici Neapolitani De sculptura liber. Ludo. Demontiosii De veterum sculptura, caelatura, gemmarum scalptura, & pictura libri duo. Abrahami Gorlaei Antverpiani Dactyliotheca

Gaurico, Pomponio, 1481 or 2-1528, Montjosieu, Louis de, 16th cent. Commentarius de sculptura, caelatura, scalptura, et pictura antiquorum, Goorle, Abraham van, 1549-1608? Dactyliotheca, Manuzio, Aldo, 1547-1597. De caelatura et pictura, Philostratus the Athenian, 2nd/3rd cent. Imagines · 1609 · [Antverpiae : s.n.] · 6 pictures

A 1609 Antwerp collection of Latin treatises on ancient sculpture, engraving, gem-carving and painting, gathering texts by Pomponio Gaurico, Louis de Montjosieu, Abraham van Goorle and Aldo Manuzio the Younger for antiquarians and collectors. The printed decoration runs to woodcut initials filled with strapwork scrolls, foliage and fleur-de-lis forms plus arrowhead tailpiece ornaments, all in coarse parallel-line shading on tinted paper — usable as drop caps, section dividers and pattern fragments.

Sculpture · Sculpture, Classical · Gems · Painting, Ancient

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