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Delle antichità di Ercolano

Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764, Carcani, Pasquale, 1721-1783 · 1757 · In Napoli : Nella Regia stamperia · 20 pictures

Delle antichità di Ercolano is a 1757 Neapolitan publication printed at the Regia stamperia in Naples, produced by Ottavio Antonio Baiardi and Pasquale Carcani to document antiquities excavated at Herculaneum for scholars and collectors. Its engraved plates show ancient oil lamps, bronze candelabra and their fittings, drawn in fine black line with careful shading and labelled captions. A designer might take from them the clean, precise linework and the simple objects-on-white arrangement typical of classical archaeological illustration.

Mural painting and decoration -- Italy -- Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Painting, Greco-Roman · Bronzes -- Italy -- Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Lamps -- Italy -- Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Candelabra -- Italy -- Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Herculaneum (Extinct city)

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