Prodromo Delle Antichità d'Ercolano
Prodromo Delle Antichità d'Ercolano is an 18th-century Italian antiquarian publication by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, printed in 1752 and collected in the Cicognara holdings, with its second part devoted to Greek, Greco-Italic and Herculaneum antiquities. The three pictures are a baroque cartouche of foliage, fruit and a central urn, a heraldic achievement with a crest, shield and motto ribbon, and a page with a title heading, a large decorated initial and dense italic text. For a designer they offer ornamental fillers, scrolls and a text-and-ornament layout suited to classical-revival pages.
