Collectanea antiquitatum romanarum quas centum tabulis aeneis incisas et a Rodulphino Venuti ...
Collectanea antiquitatum romanarum is a 1736 Roman book of one hundred copper-engraved plates by Ridolfino Venuti, printed in Rome for scholars and collectors of classical antiquities. Its pictures are small framed engravings of ancient objects: a figure pouring from a vessel beside a jug in an oval, a pair of portrait medallions above an inscribed plinth, a marble-style head in profile, and a figure on a lamp-like handle. A designer could take the restrained oval and roundel framing, and the fine hatched shading that gives stone and metal a sculptural feel.
