Felsina pittrice: vite de' pittori bolognesi ; ... con indici ...: Felsina Pittrice: Vite De' Pittori Bolognesi ; Alla Maesta Di Carlo Emanuele III. Re Di Sardegna &c. &c.
Felsina pittrice is a 1769 Italian art-history book by Luigi Crespi, continuing Carlo Cesare Malvasia's lives of Bolognese painters, dedicated to King Charles Emanuel III of Sardinia. Its pictures are small oval engraved portrait busts of painters, each framed by a lettered inscription naming the sitter and his title. A designer might take from them the tight oval frame, the cross-hatched engraved shading, and the mix of wigs, caps and fur collars as period portrait conventions.
