Bavaria sancta
Bavaria sancta, a 1624 Latin devotional and historical work compiled by Matthäus Rader, printed in Germany for a Catholic readership interested in the saints and sacred sites of Bavaria. The four pictures are near-identical woodcut headpieces: a central ornamental cartouche with scrolls, volutes and foliage hanging from a horizontal band, with thin vertical sprays at each side. A designer could take the symmetrical, strapwork-like Renaissance ornament as a model for decorative borders, page headers or cartouche framing.
