Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti Genovesi
Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti Genovesi is a 1769 Italian biographical book by Raffaele Soprani, revised by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, collecting lives of painters, sculptors and architects from Genoa. The pictures are engraved oval portrait medallions of sitters in wigs and collars, set in ornate scrolled cartouches with ribbons, lettered tablets and mask keystones, plus a woodcut ornamental header; a designer could draw on the framing scrolls, masks and lettering as reusable decorative structures.
