Klassischer Bilderschatz
Klassischer Bilderschatz, a Munich art-reproduction album of 1889 edited by Franz von Reber and Adolph Bayersdorfer, gathers halftone plates of European old master paintings for students and general art lovers. The plates here show sacred and domestic scenes: a Nativity by Friedrich Herlen, a Holy Kinship by Jan van Scorel, Tintoretto's Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, and a Venetian crowd scene. A designer might take the dense figure groupings, dark interiors and architectural backdrops as models for staging crowded narrative compositions.
