[Busti antichi]

Trevisani, Francesco, 1658-1732 · 1726 · [Venice? : s.n.] · 33 pictures

An Italian book of engraved plates, published around 1726 probably in Venice, recording classical marble busts from a private collection in Verona assembled by the painter Francesco Trevisani. The plates are made for art connoisseurs and collectors who wanted a record of antique sculpture. Each plate shows a single bust in three-quarter view on a plain pedestal, rendered in fine, even engraved hatching with a pale paper ground, and a designer might borrow the restrained, museum-catalogue layout with its small objects like coins and a compass set beside each figure.

Trevisani, Francesco, 1658-1732 -- Art collections -- Pictorial works · Marble sculpture, Classical -- Private collections -- Italy -- Verona -- Pictorial works · Busts -- Private collections -- Italy -- Verona -- Pictorial works

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