Columna Theodosiana, quam vulgo "historiatam" vocant, ab Arcadio imperatore Constantinopoli erecta in honorem imperatoris Theodosii junioris : a Gentile Bellino delineata : nunc primum aere sculpta et in xviii. tabulas distributa
A 1765 Venetian engraved plate series published by Pasquali after Gentile Bellini's drawings of the Column of Theodosius in Constantinople, compiled by Claude-François Ménestrier for scholars and antiquarians. The plates show the spiral reliefs as horizontal strips of processions, soldiers, horsemen, elephants and crowds, with fine hatched shading and dense linear detail that a designer could use as a model for frieze-like narrative compositions.
