Giuochi [e] pompe di Romani [e] lordine del triompho di Paulo Emilio nel giorno del giouedi di carnoale per la festa di Agona

1536 · Roma : [s.n.] · 4 pictures

A 1536 Italian festival account, Giuochi e pompe di Romani, printed in Rome without a named publisher and held by the Getty Research Institute, describing Roman games and the triumph of Paulus Aemilius during Carnival. The four pictures are small woodcut decorations: two ornamental initial letters, one a V in a framed field with flowers and foliage and the other a dense interlace of scrolls, a crude black initial with spirals, and a Roman allegorical vignette with a seated female figure, a spear, a globe and a plant above the letters RO and MA with a papal coat of arms. A designer could draw on the interlaced scroll initials and the compact framed vignette as models for border and monogram work.

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