Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens
A 1584 Paris portrait book by the cosmographer André Thevet, issued by the Kervert and Chaudière press, collecting engraved likenesses of famous Greek, Latin and pagan figures for a learned French readership. The engravings are bust-length or half-length portraits of men in armour, plumed helmets, cloaks and ornate collars, cut in fine parallel hatching with strong modelling of faces and metal, useful to a designer wanting period costume, armour detail or classical-revival character studies.
