Catalogo
This is a Venice Biennale exhibition catalogue from 1895, published in Venice by the Biennale di Venezia for art-world visitors and collectors. Its pages are printed plates of modern paintings, several rotated sideways on the page, showing Italian scenes: a Pompeii-style interior with figures, a Venetian-type street with bathers and barges, a reclining nude group in a garden, and a seated nude man against rock. A designer might take from them the dense tonal shading and figure compositions of late nineteenth-century Italian academic painting.
