Kunst und Künstler des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts: Biographien und Charakteristiken: Kunst und Künstler des siebenzehnten Jahrhunderts
A German art-history volume by A. Wolfgang Becker, published in 1864, with biographies and character studies of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century artists, written for a general educated readership. Its pictures are wood-engraved portraits and genre scenes: one shows a violinist in a feathered hat framed by a stone arch, another a crowded interior of figures at a table, and another a bust of a dark-haired man in a cloak. A designer might take their crisp hatching, tight oval-free framing and period costume as a model for historical editorial illustration.
