Musee Pie-Clementin
Musee Pie-Clementin is a catalogue of sculpture from the Vatican's Museo Pio-Clementino, written by the scholar Ennio Quirino Visconti and published in Milan in 1818. Its plates are engraved line drawings of Greco-Roman busts shown in profile or three-quarter view against blank paper, with inscribed names and plate numbers. A designer could take from them the clean, hatched contour style of early nineteenth-century antiquarian engraving, suited to classical portrait studies and heritage typography.
