Il forestiere informato delle cose di Lucca : opera
An 18th-century Italian guidebook by Vincenzo Marchiò, printed in Lucca in 1721 by Salvatore and Giandomenico Marescandoli, written for visitors to the city's art and sights. The three pictures are woodcut tailpieces and headpieces: two show winged putti flanking a bowl of fruit above a bracketed plinth, and one shows two seated putti with a scrolled acanthus base, one holding a fruit. A designer could draw on their symmetrical framing, scrolled brackets and cherub motifs for decorative borders and dividers.
