Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: École Florentine
This is a plate-based art history from 1876, compiled by Charles Blanc and Paul Mantz, covering the Florentine school of painters and reproducing its works as engravings for a general readership of art students and collectors. The four pictures are black-and-white engravings after Renaissance and Baroque altarpieces and devotional scenes, showing Madonnas with saints, kneeling donors, and a figure holding a severed head. A designer might draw on their dense crosshatched shading, formal symmetrical grouping of figures, and architectural niches for period-style compositions.
