Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti
Guglielmo della Valle's annotated Siena edition (1791, Pazzini Carli) of Giorgio Vasari's lives of Italian painters, sculptors and architects, issued for scholars and collectors. Each life opens with an engraved portrait head in a lettered oval cartouche set on a plinth and flanked by putti, garlands, brushes, palettes, mallets and chisels — ready-made frames, trophies and name-banner devices.
