Allegorical title page with Peace Pax, Abundance Abundantia and Urbanity carrying the Painting to the personification of Rome Ignorance Ignorantia, Envy Invidia and Superstition Idolatria try to stop them In the foreground on the right Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, pulling texts from the hands of Father Time In the sky on a cloud Eternity holding a laurel wreath In the background a view of Rome In the margin a nine-line caption in French, Triumph of painting Le triomphe de la peinture Title page for: Pliny, Histoire de la peinture ancienne , 1725, print maker: Bernard Picart, (mentioned

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