Le gemme antiche figurate
Le gemme antiche figurate is a 1686 Roman folio of engraved classical gem illustrations, published by Giovanni Battista Bussotti from texts by Agostini and Bellori with plates by Galestruzzi. The four pictures show profile portraits of Roman and Greek figures set in oval laurel-wreath frames, with fine vertical hatching behind each head. A designer could take the cameo-style oval frame, the crisp profile silhouettes and the dense parallel-line backgrounds as a model for seal-like emblems or heritage labels.
