Villa Burghesia, vulgo Pinciana : poeticè descripta
A 1716 Latin poem published in Rome by Franciscus Gonzaga, written by Andrea Brigenti, describing the sculptures of the Villa Borghese park for a learned audience. Its engraved plates show single classical statues of male figures set on pedestals or basins, drawn with fine parallel hatching and placed on plain paper margins. A designer could take from them the stone-figure poses, the crisp contour hatching and the way a single statue is framed within a rectangle.
