Museo della Reale Accademia di Mantova

Labus, Giovanni, 1775-1853, Puzzi, Lanfranco, Lanzani, Antonio, D'Arco, Carlo, 1799-1872, Savazzi, Carlo, Reale Accademia virgiliana di scienze, lettere ed arti · 1837 · Mantova : A spese degli editori d'Arco e fratelli Negretti · 14 pictures

A catalogue of the museum holdings of the Royal Academy at Mantua, published in Mantua in 1837 by D'Arco and Negretti and written by Labus with Puzzi, Lanzani and D'Arco for a learned and antiquarian readership. Its plates show Roman and Greek marble busts and inscriptions rendered as grey tonal engravings on pale paper, offering a designer reference for classical portrait heads with sculptural shading, draped togas and elaborate hairstyles.

Reale Accademia virgiliana di scienze, lettere ed arti · Sculpture, Roman · Sculpture, Greek · Inscriptions, Latin

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