Das Florentiner Bildnis
A German art history study by Emil Schaeffer, published in Munich by F. Bruckmann in 1904, examining Florentine portraiture through reproductions of paintings. The four pictures are black-and-white halftone plates of Italian religious and group scenes, with robed figures in crowded interiors and processions. A designer might take from them the layered grouping of figures, dense draped garments, and architectural framing used in early Renaissance compositions.
