Leben der ausgezeichnetsten Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister, von Cimabue bis zum Jahre 1567
Vasari's 1849 German edition of artists' lives, edited by Ernst Förster and Ludwig Schorn, was issued for readers of art history and drawn from the Heidelberg University Library. The four pictures are small oval engraved portrait busts of bearded men in period dress, shaded with dense parallel hatching and set against plain paper. A designer could take from them the compact oval vignette format, the cross-hatched engraved line, and the convention of framing portraits in a medallion.
