Atrivm Heroicvm. Caesarvm, Regv[m], Aliarvmqve Svmmatvm, Ac Procervm. Qui intra proximum seculum vixere, aut hodie supersunt: Eiconvm XXXI

Custos, Dominicus [Bearb.], Henning, Marcus [Bearb.] · 1601 · 30 pictures

Atrivm Heroicvm is a 1601 collection of engraved portrait plates by Dominicus Custos, with text by Marcus Henning, gathering rulers, nobles and notable figures of the preceding century for a learned audience. Each plate frames a bust-length man in an oval within a rectangle, with a Latin inscription and verse beneath, and a designer could take the strict oval-in-frame layout, the dense ruff collars and the uniform engraved hatching as a model for formal historical portraiture.

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