Storia dell'arte italiana
Venturi's 1901 Storia dell'arte italiana is a multi-volume survey of Italian art published by Hoepli in Milan, written for students and general readers of art history. Its photographic plates show carved and relief sculpture: a pulpit-like wooden or marble panel with figures in niches, a relief of a seated figure beneath an architectural canopy with a tree and a scene of ascent, a rider on horseback among foliage, and a standing draped female figure in a niche. A designer might take the dense foliate borders, the tight arrangement of figures within framed panels, and the flattened, shallow depth of medieval relief.
