Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans
This is a Paris exhibition catalogue of 1673 issued by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture for the Salon, listing paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture and prints by living artists. The first picture is a floor plan of the exhibition hall with rooms labelled for sculpture, colonnes, arts décoratifs, and a buffet, while the second is a bold woodcut monogram of interlaced letters A and S with a diamond below. A designer might take the plan's compact labelled layout as a model for wayfinding diagrams and the monogram's dense interlaced letterforms as a reference for emblem or logo lettering.
