Geschichte der Malerei Neapels
Geschichte der Malerei Neapels is a 1910 German art-history survey of painting in Naples by Wilhelm Rolfs, published in Leipzig by E. A. Seemann for scholars and students of art. Its pages carry numbered plates of Neapolitan canvases and altarpieces, several printed sideways, showing religious scenes with saints, Biblical episodes, and portraits in dark, heavily shadowed tonal reproductions. A designer might take from them the chiaroscuro lighting, dramatic figure groupings, and the dense compositions of Baroque religious painting.
