Vccelliera, overo, Discorso della natvra, e proprieta di diversi vccelli : e in particolare di qve'che cantano : con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, alleuargli, e mantenergli : e con le figure cauate dal vero, e diligentemente intagliate in rame dal Tempesta, e dal Villamena
Vccelliera, overo, Discorso della natvra, e proprieta di diversi vccelli is a 1622 Italian natural-history treatise on birds by Giovanni Pietro Olina, published in Rome by Andrea Fei, with copper engravings by Antonio Tempesta and Francesco Villamena. The plates show single birds, each named in a caption above and set on a stylised branch or rock against a faint column of printed text, drawn with fine parallel hatching that gives plumage and feather texture. A designer could take from them the restrained, precise line of early-modern scientific engraving and its clean isolated specimen layout.
