De gli habiti delle religioni con le armi e breue descrittion loro, libro primo[-terza]

Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573-1638, Sadeler, Marcus, 17th cent · 1626 · Stampata in Venetia : A instanza di Marco Sadeler · 149 pictures

A 1626 Venetian book of engraved plates by Odoardo Fialetti, published by Marco Sadeler, showing the habits and coats of arms of religious orders for a general readership interested in monasticism. Its pictures are small etchings pairing a shield with a monk or friar standing in a frame of unrolled cartouche scrolls, and a designer could take from them the compact, symmetrical layout of heraldic framing and the fine parallel hatching used to render cloth folds and shadow.

Monasticism and religious orders

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