Antique-Style Ornamental Frieze Designs: Grotesques with Winged Infant, Masks, and Fantastic Animals

Ornament design after the antique

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Ornamental design with Grotesques

Anonymous, German, 19th century

A triton and a siren fighting at center, their legs as scrollwork, a swan to right, the grotesque head of an old man below, plate 6 from "Friezes, foliage, and grotesques" (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

After Stefano della Bella

Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

Polifilo Giancarli, Odoardo Fialetti, Tasio Giancarli

Antique-Style Ornamental Frieze Design: Lettered Panels, Rinceaux, and Masks

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso)

attributed to Andrés de Melgar

Design for Half of Frame with Helm, Putti, Mask

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Design for a Wall Fountain

Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century

Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

Polifilo Giancarli, Odoardo Fialetti, Tasio Giancarli

Frieze with Grotesques and a Mask Wearing a Whimple and Crown at Center

Theodor de Bry

Disegni Varij di Polifilo Zancarli (Friezes)

Polifilo Giancarli, Odoardo Fialetti

Design for One Half of an Altar, with an Angel (of the Annunciation) at the left

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century