Icones sive Imagines Virorvm literis Illvstrivm: Qvorvm Fide Et Doctrina Religionis Et Bonarvm literarum studia, nostrâ patrumque memoriâ, in Germaniâ praesertim, in integrum sunt restituta
Icones sive Imagines Virorvm is a 1590 portrait book compiled by Nikolaus Reusner and edited by Bernhard Jobin, printed in Germany for scholars and readers of Latin. Its pictures are small woodcut head-and-shoulders portraits of Reformation-era humanists, each framed in a plain rectangular border with a Latin caption and inscription below. A designer might take from them the compact, uniform layout of a historical portrait gallery, with consistent framing, dated captions and varied period hats and beards.
