Storia dell'arte italiana
Storia dell'arte italiana is a 1901 Milan art history survey by the critic Adolfo Venturi, published by Hoepli for general readers and students of Italian art. Its two plates are black-and-white photographic reproductions of medieval sculpture: a mourning figure in a draped niche beside a recumbent body, and a standing robed stone statue shown in profile. A designer could take from them the heavy drapery folds, the stiff frontal poses and the dense, deep-shadowed stone surfaces of early Italian sculpture.
