Opere di Giorgio Vasari, pittore e architetto aretino
This 1822 Florentine edition of Giorgio Vasari's writings on painters and architects, published by S. Audin and Co., is an art-historical book aimed at scholars and collectors of Italian art. Its pictures are small, restrained line-engraved portrait heads of artists in oval-free rectangular frames with inscribed names beneath, showing bearded men in period caps and collars; a designer might take their sparse hatching, plain margins, and centred captioned layout as a model for classical portrait plates.
