Musée Pie-Clémentin
Musée Pie-Clémentin is a late eighteenth-century catalogue of Roman sculpture in the Vatican's Pio-Clementino museum, written by the antiquarian Ennio Quirino Visconti and printed in Milan in 1818 for scholars and collectors. Its engraved plates show reliefs, sarcophagi and vessels with precise outline drawing. A designer could take from them the clean contour line and the restrained, symmetrical framing of classical ornament, with cherubs, scrolls and figures set in shallow relief.
