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Le imagini delle donne avgvste intagliate in istampa di rame : con le vite, et ispositioni di Enea Vico sopra i riversi delle loro medaglie antiche

Vico, Enea, 1523-1567 · 1600 · In Venetia : Presso Giacomo Franco ... · 36 pictures

A 1600 Venetian book of engraved portraits of Roman empresses by Enea Vico, published by Giacomo Franco for antiquarian and collecting readers. Each plate shows a female bust medallion set into a carved classical monument with garlands, rams' heads, consoles and inscription tablets, rendered in fine line engraving that a designer could use for period ornament and framing.

Empresses · Medals, Roman

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