Die meisterwerke des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums zu Berlin.
This 1900 Munich and New York plate book by Oskar Fischel reproduces paintings from the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, arranged by Italian and German schools for art-historical study. The pictures are reproductions of Renaissance panel paintings: Madonna and saints in a landscape, the Adoration of the Kings with crowded architectural ruins, and a Nativity-era interior with a kneeling donor and a seated figure at a lectern. A designer might take their formal devices, such as symmetrical enthroned groupings, dense architectural backdrops, and rich drapery in ochre and red tones.
