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I carri delle sei contrade, che comparuero splendidamente in teatro alla luce di ser.o Sole, ue[n]gono hora p[er] lor disauentura oscuramente delineati nell'ombre confuse de miei debili intagli ... Siena il dì marzo 1632, deuotiss.o ser.e Bernardino Capitelli

Capitelli, Bernardino, 1589-1639 · 1632 · [Siena : s.n. · 6 pictures

A 1632 book of engraved plates by Bernardino Capitelli (1589-1639), printed in Siena, showing the floats of the city's six contrade paraded in a theatrical pageant for its patrons. The plates show horse-drawn carts with heavy carved bodies, classical reliefs, and figures at the top, drawn in fine parallel line work a designer could study for ornament and staging.

Pageants · Processions · Parade floats

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