Relazione della pittura fatta dal signor Pietro Martorana nella ven. Chiesa delle RR. monache di S. Rosalia di Palermo dell'ordine del patriarca S. Benedetto, sotto il felice governo della m. rev. madre abbadessa sr. Maria Fortunata Gervasi
A 1756 Italian pamphlet printed in Palermo by Pietro Bentivenga, describing a painting by Pietro Martorana in the church of S. Rosalia for its Benedictine nuns. The two pictures are small woodcut printer's ornaments: a large decorated initial N framed by acanthus scrolls with a small face, and a central cartouche of crossed tools and a basket between curling foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical, mid-eighteenth-century baroque ornament used to frame initials and section breaks.
