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Simboli festiui : per le solennità principali di Christo nostro signore, della Beata Vergine Maria, degl'apostoli, e d'altri santi, che frà l'anno da chiesa santa di suo precetto si celebrano

Labia, Carlo, -1701, Piccini, Isabella, 1644-1734, Lazzarini, Gregorio, 1655-1730, Uberti, Domenico, Pezzana, Nicolò, 17th cent · 1698 · Venetia : Apresso Nicolò Pezzana ... · 43 pictures

This 1698 Venetian book, printed by Nicolò Pezzana and credited to Carlo Labia with engravings by Isabella Piccini and others, is an emblem book of symbolic festive images for the principal feasts of the Church year, aimed at devotional readers. Its pictures are engraved cartouches framing allegorical figures, mottoes, plants and animals, with ornamental scroll frames a designer could adapt for decorative borders, title panels or emblematic motifs.

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