Materiali per servire alla storia dell'origine e de' progressi dell'incisione in rame e in legno e sposizione dell'interessante scoperta d'una stampa originale del celebre Maso Finiguerra fatta nel Gabinetto Nazionale di Parigi
A 1802 Parma history of copperplate and woodcut engraving by Pietro Antonio Zani, printed by Stamperia Carmignani, tracing the origins of the craft and documenting a newly found print attributed to Maso Finiguerra. The single plate is a fine engraved reproduction of a Coronation of the Virgin, with a tiered architectural canopy, a seated Virgin and Christ, and rows of kneeling and standing saints in draped robes. Designers might take its dense crowding of figures, rhythmic drapery folds and the arched frame as models for symmetrical, ceremonial composition in line work.
