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Il funerale d'Agostin Carraccio : fatto in Bologna sua patria da gl'Incaminati academici del disegno

Morello, Benedetto, Faberio, Lucio, Brizio, Francesco, ca. 1574-1623, Reni, Guido, 1575-1642 · 1603 · In Bologna : Presso Vittorio Benacci · 20 pictures

A 1603 Italian funeral account printed in Bologna by Vittorio Benacci, describing the funeral of painter Agostino Carracci, written by members of the Accademia degli Incamminati for their fellow artists and patrons. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initials, each a letter framed by dense hatched foliage, scrolls, and small figures, offering a designer ready-made models for ornamental capitals and border frames.

Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602 · Funeral rites and ceremonies

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