Le cose maravigliose dell’alma città di Roma
A 1595 Roman guidebook printed in Rome by Guglielmo Facciotto, describing the city's marvels and its churches for visitors and pilgrims. Its pictures are small woodcut elevations of church facades labelled with each church's name, drawn in plain, evenly ruled line with hatching for shadow. A designer could take from them a compact, diagrammatic way of showing architecture: symmetrical frontals, simple tonal hatching, and framed captions set beneath each image.
