Christliche Ikonographie : ein Handbuch zum Verständniss der christlichen Kunst
Heinrich Detzel's Christliche Ikonographie, a German handbook published in Freiburg im Breisgau and St. Louis by Herder in 1894, explains Christian art and symbolism for students and readers of religious art. Its pictures are reproductions of paintings and reliefs, including a baptism scene with angels and saints, and a ring of rowed angels around a central tabernacle, rendered in engraving and line drawing; a designer might take their dense, ordered figure groupings and halo conventions as reference for sacred composition.
