Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata: imaginibus in aes incisis notisque ill.
This is an emblem book, the Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, published in 1607 and edited by Otto van Veen from Horace's odes, with engraved plates and short mottoes for a learned Latin-reading audience. The pictures are black-and-white engravings of crowded classical and biblical-style scenes with robed figures, gestures and dramatic action, offering a designer compositional models for densely populated narrative plates with strong diagonals and clear figure grouping.
