Antiquités d'Herculanum
Antiquités d'Herculanum is a 1804 Paris publication by Tommaso Piroli and the Piranesi brothers, Francesco and Pietro, reproducing ancient Greco-Roman paintings and reliefs found at Herculaneum for a neoclassical audience of artists and collectors. The plates show idealised figures in draped robes, classical gods with attributes, and mythological scenes drawn in fine etched outline with restrained shading, giving designers a compact vocabulary of antique poses, drapery and ornamental framing for classical-revival work.
