Antologia dell'arte pittorica
Antologia dell'arte pittorica is a 1784 Italian treatise on painting by Baldassarre Orsini, with Anton Raphael Mengs, issued as a set of numbered engraved plates reproduced from the Heidelberg University Library copy. The plates are small etchings of classical and biblical scenes, each labelled with a Roman numeral, offering compositional models for historical painting. A designer can take from them the staging of crowded groups around a central figure, with strong contrasts of light and dark and firm contour lines in the hatching.
