Comment: Argument_47
Your book and mine have many similarities! The name of my book is: “Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonio Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Saramtica expeditione insignis, ex S. C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erecta … ” . It is by the same author, Pietro Santi Bartoli, and with Bartoli’s etching skills also fully illustrated. It’s interesting to me how both books not only share a connection when it comes to the media used but also the subject of the books. They both examine the dedication of a column, honoring the efforts of a roman emperor Trajan and Marcus Aurelius.
Comment: Argument_61
The book: “Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonio Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Saramtica expeditione insignis, ex S. C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erecta …” by Pietro Santi Bartoli is fully illustrated as well. Bartoli was a sculptor and painter and he practiced etching too, therefore his book almost only consists of copper engravings. Besides that he too displays the role of a column in the roman empire as a dedication to victories and efforts by emperors. The fact that it is fully pictorial depicts the story just as well as writing would (or even better like in your lexicon-like book about columns).