Statuae insigniores
Statuae insigniores is a 1736 Nuremberg volume of engraved plates by Johann Justin Preissler, reproducing famous classical statues for a learned or artistic audience. The plates show single nude or semi-draped marble figures, such as Apollo, Bacchus, Prometheus and Hercules, set against plain grey backgrounds with Latin captions; a designer could take their strict frontal and rear poses, crisp hatching and figure-study proportions as a model for classical figure drawing.
