Sculture e pitture sagre estratte dai cimiterj di Roma : pubblicate gia dagli autori della Roma sotterranea ed ora nuovamente date in luce colle spiegazioni per ordine di n. s. Clemente XII ..
Bottari's 1737 Roman folio, printed at the Vatican Press for Pope Clement XII, reproduces sculptures and paintings taken from the Roman catacombs for scholars of early Christian art. The plates show sarcophagus-style relief panels of figures in arcaded niches, set on plain pages with decorative cartouches and winged putti at the corners, a sober record a designer could use for classical-style frames, arcades and cartouche ornament.




















