A new history of painting in Italy, from the second to the sixteenth century
A new history of painting in Italy, from the second to the sixteenth century is a scholarly art-history survey written by J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle and published in London by John Murray in 1864 for students and readers of art. Its pictures are rotated line engravings of frescoes and processional scenes, showing crowded figures in draped robes set within architectural interiors and arcades, a useful model for designers planning dense figure compositions and classical framing.
