Villa Pamphilia : eiusque palatium, cum suis prospectibus, statuae, fontes, vivaria, theatra, areolae, plantarum, viarumque ordines, cum eiusdem villae absoluta delineatione
A 1650 Roman guidebook of the Villa Pamphili, published in Rome by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi and issued for visitors and collectors interested in the villa's palace, gardens, fountains and sculpture. Its engraved plates show classical marble busts of emperors and women on plain pedestals, set against hatched shadowed backgrounds, with inscribed bases and cropped plate frames. A designer could draw on the rigorous line hatching, the sculpted drapery folds, and the strong cast shadows that give the busts their volume.
