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Museum etruscum : exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis C.C. nunc primum edita et illustrata

Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691-1757, Passeri, Giovanni Battista, 1694-1780 · 1737 · Florentiae : In aedibus auctoris regio permissu excudit : Caietanus Albizinius typographus · 15 pictures

Museum etruscum is a 1737 Florentine folio of engraved plates of Etruscan antiquities, assembled by Antonio Francesco Gori and Giovanni Battista Passeri for scholars and collectors of antiquity. The plates show sarcophagus reliefs with banqueting and processional figures, cinerary urns with inscribed panels, and bronze mirror roundels with mythological scenes, drawn in crisp outline with dense hatching, offering a designer models for classical frieze composition, decorative roundel framing and inscribed tablet layouts.

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