Pianta E Spaccato Della Celebre Chiesa Di S. Vitale Di Ravenna
An 1782 Italian architectural treatise by Serafino Barozzi, part of a Cicognara collection of views and descriptions of monuments, temples and buildings outside Rome, here centred on the church of San Vitale in Ravenna. Its engravings are measured architectural drawings: a section cutting through the church, a plan, and an elevation of a domed tomb, plus a carved Roman relief. A designer could take from them the clean line-engraving method of showing structure, with plans and sections drawn in solid black masses against pale paper.
