Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens
A 1584 Paris collection of engraved portraits of famous Greek, Latin and pagan men by the cosmographer André Thevet, printed for a learned readership interested in classical antiquity. The engravings show bearded scholars in robes and hoods, many with books, scrolls, writing tablets or pens, rendered in fine parallel hatching that gives a warm sepia tone and a dignified, archival feel suited to period portrait studies.
