Festa fatta in Roma alli 25. di febraio MDCXXXIV
This is a 1635 Roman festival record, published in Rome by Vitale Mascardi, documenting a carnival-style procession held on 25 February 1634 and commemorating its patrons, the Barberini family, with the Prince Alexander Charles Vasa of Poland among those honoured. The four pictures are etched processional scenes of mounted nobles, plumed attendants, and foot soldiers marching across open ground, with horses in dynamic poses. A designer could take from them the rhythm of crowds in layered rows, the dense plumed headgear, and the staged pageantry of parade compositions.
