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Museum etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis C.C. nunc primum edita et illustrata

Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691-1757, Passeri, Giovanni Battista, 1694-1780 · 1737 · Florentiae : In aedibus auctoris regio permissu excudit : Caietanus Albizinius typographus · 24 pictures

Museum etruscum is a 1737 Florentine folio of engraved plates by Antonio Francesco Gori and Giovanni Battista Passeri, reproducing Etruscan monuments and decorative objects for an antiquarian and art-collecting readership. The pictures are engraved ornamental panels with circular medallions, relief-style figure groups, carved animal and eagle motifs, and laurel-framed roundels, offering a designer classical ornament schemes, symmetrical cartouche layouts, and framing devices.

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