Affetti geniali
Affetti geniali is a 1630 printed book published in Vicenza by the heirs of Domenico Amadio and attributed to Nicolò Corradini (1573-1624). The pictures are small repeated woodcut printers' ornaments, each a flower-filled urn on a scrolled pedestal with a mask at its base, placed as decorative tailpieces or fleurons. A designer could take from them a compact, symmetrical vessel motif that reads clearly at small scale.
