Dichiarazione degli antichi marmi Modenesi : con le notizie di Modena al tempo dei Romani
An 1828 Modena publication by Celestino Cavedoni, printed by G. Vincenzi e Compagno, describing ancient Roman marble monuments and inscriptions from the Modena region for scholars and antiquarians. The pictures are plain line diagrams of funerary tablets, each a rounded or gabled arch framing a bust labelled Busto d'Uomo or Busto di Donna, with small carved motifs such as birds, cages, roses and fasces set in the spandrels and borders. A designer could take the arch-and-niche layout and the restrained labelled panel structure as a clean template for memorial or heraldic framing.
