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A 1569 Roman engraved book of portraits of famous men, compiled by Antoine Lafréry with text by Achilles Estaço, reproducing ancient Roman sculpted busts for scholars and collectors. The pictures are fine line engravings of marble heads and shoulders set against hatched backgrounds, showing carved hair, beards and drapery; a designer might take from them the cross-hatching technique and the classical bust format.
