Justi Lipsi[i] De Amphitheatro Liber: In quo forma ipsa Loci expressa, & ratio spectandi ; Cum aeneis figuris
Justus Lipsius's 1584 treatise on Roman amphitheatres, printed by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp for scholars and students of architecture and archaeology. The pictures are engraved plates and decorative printer's ornaments: a cutaway model of tiered seating and stairs, a ruined elevation of the Colosseum with figures on the ground, a title page with a cartouche, and a historiated initial C with a grazing animal. A designer might take the crisp hatched line work of the plates and the dense ornamental framing of the title page and initial.
![Picture 1 of 4 from Justi Lipsi[i] De Amphitheatro Liber: In quo forma ipsa Loci expressa, & ratio spectandi ; Cum aeneis figuris (1584), leaf 3](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/heidelberg-lipsius1584a-3-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 4 from Justi Lipsi[i] De Amphitheatro Liber: In quo forma ipsa Loci expressa, & ratio spectandi ; Cum aeneis figuris (1584), leaf 8](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/heidelberg-lipsius1584a-8-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 4 from Justi Lipsi[i] De Amphitheatro Liber: In quo forma ipsa Loci expressa, & ratio spectandi ; Cum aeneis figuris (1584), leaf 15](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/heidelberg-lipsius1584a-15-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 4 from Justi Lipsi[i] De Amphitheatro Liber: In quo forma ipsa Loci expressa, & ratio spectandi ; Cum aeneis figuris (1584), leaf 60](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/heidelberg-lipsius1584a-60-1.webp)