Machina della Confraternità dell'Inuentione di S. Croce, presso S. Domenico : pensiero & inuentione del signor Lodovico Vigarani, abbate e canonico dignissimo della cathedrale di Reggio
This Italian printed work of 1674 was issued in Reggio by the printer Prospero Vedrotti, describing a machine devised by Lodovico Vigarani for the Confraternity of the Invention of the Holy Cross at San Domenico in Reggio, a religious devotional audience. The two woodcut pictures are small decorative pieces: a carved-looking cartouche of a central mask flanked by winged putti, and a framed initial Q enclosing a rustic landscape with figures and animals. A designer might borrow their dense black cut-line textures, symmetrical framing devices and miniature scenic vignettes for ornament or pattern.
