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Some illustrations from the title pages of various volumes of Il Museo Pio Clementino described by Ennio Quirino Visconti, Rome, 1792.
Don Lake of D & E Lake Books in Toronto sold me this many years ago, but incomplete, and without the actual illustrations. It is an enormous book: the individual (unbound, uncut) pages are each about 18½ × 25 inches and the pile of pages that I do have is some four and a half inches thick.
Although my copy lacks the illustrations, I do have some of the title pages for the individual books, and they each have an engraving of a heraldic shield with various things surrounding it. And if you know anyone would like some eighteenth century Italian paper with a book printed on it...
Title: Il Museo Pio Clementino
Published by: Luigi Mirri
City: Rome
Date: 1792
Total items: 2
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Art]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Visconti-IlMuseoPioClementino/wm/big/Vol-IV-000-title-page-detail-symbols-of-art-q85-319x200.jpg "[picture: Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Art]")
Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Art
This heraldic crest is from the title page to Volume IV of the huge book. If you are able to give a formal description of this image I’d love to hear from you; informally, it shows an armorial bearing of a head (probably Zephyr, the West Wind) blowing a flower, surmounted by three stars. The shield is mounted on a shell, and has myrtle branches (or mistletoe?) to eithe side, and two keys above it, with on the very top a helmet or lidded urn. To the left are signs for the sciences, such as a map, an astrological chart with a face in the middle, books (one perhaps this book), a set square and ruler from architecture, and maybe Pythagoras, together with a bag of gold coins showing commerce. To the right a stele showing a centaur whose naked rider is being shot at close range [more...] [$]
![[picture: Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Industry]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Visconti-IlMuseoPioClementino/wm/big/Vol-VI-000-title-page-detail-q90-321x200.jpg "[picture: Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Industry]")
Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Industry
This heraldic crest is from the title page to Volume VI of the huge book. If you are able to give a formal description of this image I’d love to hear from you; informally, it shows an armorial bearing of a head (probably Zephyr, the West Wind) blowing a flower, surmounted by three stars. The shield is mounted on a shell, and has myrtle branches (or mistletoe?) to eithe side, and two keys above it, with on the very top a helmet or lidded urn surmounted by a cross, perhaps indicating the arms of a pope or cardinal. To the left are signs for commerce and hunting, with a putto [more...] [$]
Some illustrations from the title pages of various volumes of Il Museo Pio Clementino described by Ennio Quirino Visconti, Rome, 1792.
Don Lake of D & E Lake Books in Toronto sold me this many years ago, but incomplete, and without the actual illustrations. It is an enormous book: the individual (unbound, uncut) pages are each about 18½ × 25 inches and the pile of pages that I do have is some four and a half inches thick.
Although my copy lacks the illustrations, I do have some of the title pages for the individual books, and they each have an engraving of a heraldic shield with various things surrounding it. And if you know anyone would like some eighteenth century Italian paper with a book printed on it...
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