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Alcvne composizioni di diversi avtori in lode del ritratto della Sabina. Scolpito in marmo dall'eccellentissimo m. Giouanni Bologna, posto nella piazza del serenissimo gran duca di Toscana

Sermartelli, Michelangelo, Vecchietti, Bernardo, 1514-1590 · 1583 · Firenze, Nelle Stamperia di Bartolomeo Sermartelli · 33 pictures

A 1583 Florentine collection of verse by various authors praising a marble portrait of the Sabine woman by Giambologna, printed by Bartolomeo Sermartelli for a Tuscan audience. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated initials, each a letter framing a scene of struggle, prayer or rescue set in a rocky landscape, with fine hatched lines a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.

Giambologna, 1529-1608 · Marble sculpture

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