The study and criticism of Italian art
A 1901 London art-criticism book by Bernard Berenson, published by G. Bell and Sons, aimed at students and connoisseurs of Italian painting, illustrated with reproductions of Renaissance altarpieces and panels. The pictures are black-and-white halftone plates, each captioned with an artist's name, showing religious scenes such as the Adoration of the Magi, the Nativity and a group of figures in a landscape. A designer might take from them the compositional habit of clustered figures set against open landscape and architecture, with draped robes and gathered groups.
