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Bartoli, Pietro Santo, Bellori, Giovanni Pietro [Bearb.], Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de [Bearb.] · 1690 · 80 pictures

This 1690 Roman folio of engraved reliefs, titled Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum, was compiled by Pietro Santo Bartoli with text by Giovanni Pietro Bellori and issued in Rome for antiquarians and artists studying classical sculpture. The plates are horizontal friezes of processions, battles and revels reproduced from ancient marble carvings. A designer could take their dense, rhythmic crowding of draped figures, animals and trophies as a model for continuous narrative bands, border friezes and classical ornament.

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