Milano
A 1906 art book on Milan by the art historian Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, published in Bergamo by the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche for readers of architecture and art. Its photographs record Renaissance and early modern palaces, chapels and courtyards, shot straight-on in sharp black and white. A designer might take from them the rhythm of arcades, rusticated stone facades, and the way a shaded loggia or a planted courtyard frames a building.
