The monastery of San Marco
The monastery of San Marco is an 1887 Florentine guidebook by Georgina Sarah Godkin, printed in Florence by G. Barbèra for visitors to the Dominican convent and its museum. Its photographic plates record the frescoes, altarpieces and interiors of the Museo di San Marco, mostly reproduced sideways on the page. A designer could take from them the restrained devotional palette of early Renaissance religious painting, with halos, gold-ground arches and monastic cells as compositional cues.
