Vita inedita di Raffaello da Urbino
A 1790 Italian biography of the painter Raffaello Sanzio, written by Angelo Comolli and published in Italy for scholars and collectors of art history. The one picture is a horizontal engraved frontispiece-style ornament: a bust-like head crowned with laurel, flanked by leafy branches and resting on a cartouche of books and scrolls, with signed credits along the bottom edge. A designer could take from it the symmetrical garland-and-cartouche arrangement, a classical emblem layout for scholarly title pages.
