The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers
A 1903 handbook on Italian Renaissance art by Heinrich Wölfflin and Sir Walter Armstrong, published in New York and London for students and travellers. Its halftone plates reproduce paintings and sculpture in grey tones: a lunette Madonna with saints, a preaching Baptist scene, Michelangelo's Pietà, and a risen Christ above four saints. A designer could take from them the gravity of frieze-like compositions, strong directional gestures, and the hierarchy of figures set in architectural frames.
