Die Baukunst des Mittelalters in Italien von der ersten Entwicklung bis zu ihrer höchsten Blüthe
Oskar Mothes's 1884 German survey of medieval Italian architecture, published in Jena by Hermann Costenoble, presents its buildings through measured architectural drawings of arches, capitals, facades and mouldings. The pictures are ink line engravings of Romanesque and Gothic details, including a Florentine facade, Corinthian capitals and round arches with carved brackets. A designer could draw on their dense hatching and clean profile drawings for decorative stone ornament, arcade rhythm and classical column detailing.
