Die klassische Kunst : eine Einführung in die italienische Renaissance
Heinrich Wölfflin's 1899 Munich art-history introduction to the Italian Renaissance, published by F. Bruckmann as a general guide for students and readers of art. Its plates reproduce sculpture and painting: a marble statue of a standing youth, a Madonna with saints, a pair of relief figures at a baptism, and a crowded altarpiece with angels overhead. A designer could take from them the classical contrapposto poses, drapery falling in heavy folds, and the balanced compositions of figures set in architectural frames.
