Die Werke der Familie della Robbia
A 1914 Berlin art-historical catalogue of the Della Robbia family's sculpture, written by Wilhelm von Bode for scholars and collectors of Italian Renaissance work. The plates are black-and-white photographs of glazed terracotta reliefs, lunettes and Madonna figures, mostly printed sideways on the page. A designer could take from them the arched lunette framing, the garlanded borders of fruit and flowers, and the calm draped figures set against plain grounds.
