Catalogue of a collection of paintings and some art objects ..
A 1913 Philadelphia catalogue of the John G. Johnson collection of paintings, compiled with art historians Bernard Berenson and Wilhelm Valentiner for collectors and specialists in Italian Renaissance art. Its plates are black-and-white halftone reproductions of altarpieces and devotional panels, several printed sideways, with a Madonna and Child and a seated Madonna with saints. A designer might take their formal, symmetrical compositions, gold-ground halo motifs and arched panel shapes as reference for classical religious imagery.
