Felsina pittrice : vite de pittori bolognesi
Felsina pittrice is a 1678 Bologna printing by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, a biographical dictionary of Bolognese painters, issued by the Barbieri heirs for an audience of art readers and collectors. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcut or engraved portrait medallions set in ornate frames of ribbons and foliage, with a named sitter below each, and a designer might borrow their oval cartouche framing, interlaced strapwork, and tidy lettered captions.
