Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet : eine Untersuchung
Lessing's 1769 Berlin study of how the ancients depicted death, a scholarly treatise on art and sepulchral monuments written for educated German readers. The plates show Roman funerary altars and sarcophagi with inscriptions, carved reliefs of youths and maidens, and cupids with torches, offering a designer classical stone-carved ornament, classical lettering layouts, and architectural forms in restrained engraved line.
