Vetera monimenta : in quibus praecipuè musiva opera sacarum profanarumque aedium structura, ac nonnulli antiqui ritus, dissertatiobus, iconibusque illustrantur
Vetera monimenta is a 1690 Roman antiquarian treatise by Giovanni Giusto Ciampini, printed in Latin for scholars of ancient and early Christian monuments, with its plates on mosaic work and church structure. Its engravings show rows of standing saints in niches beneath shell-like arches, mosaic-style ornamental bands, and a curved apse-like lunette with inscribed text, offering a designer a dense, orderly vocabulary of repeated figures, arches and borders for pattern and layout.
