Storia dell'arte col mezzo dei monumenti dalla sua decadenza nel IV secolo fino al suo risorgimento nel XVI
This is an Italian-language art history from 1825 by the French antiquarian Seroux d'Agincourt, printed in Milan, tracing architecture, painting and sculpture from the fourth century to the sixteenth through monuments. Its plates are dense engraved grids of small figures, carvings and mosaic fragments, arranged in numbered panels across each page. A designer could draw on the tight, repeated panel layouts and the stiff, linear medieval figure drawings for ornamental borders, sequential storytelling frames and historical reference.
