Le antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate : raccolte dalle caue sotterranee e grotte di Roma, nelle quali si contengono molte erudite memorie
Le antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate is a 1691 Roman book of engraved plates of ancient sepulchral oil lamps, collected by Pietro Santi Bartoli and Giovanni Pietro Bellori and printed in Rome by Giovanni Francesco Buagni for antiquarians and scholars. The engravings show round clay lamps with a handle and nozzle set against a shaded ground, each with a mythological or everyday scene in its central disc, and a designer could take their compact circular framing and classical figure poses as a reference for ornamental medallions.
