Monuments of art: showing its development and progress from the earliest artistic attempts to the present period : in two volumes: Plate LXIV to CXXXVI, with nine additional plates, (end.)
This is a late nineteenth-century plate volume from the 1880 Monuments of art survey, compiled by August von Voit, Ernst Karl Guhl, Josef Caspar and Wilhelm Lübke and held by Heidelberg University Library, meant for students of art history. The engraved plates reproduce sculpted reliefs and painted scenes in pairs and grids, drawn with fine hatched outlines of crowded figures in draped robes, processions and seated groups set in architectural interiors. A designer could draw on their dense rhythmic figure grouping, classical drapery folds and frieze-like compositions for historical or ornamental borders.
