Geschichte der malerei
Geschichte der Malerei is a German-language survey of the history of painting by critic Richard Muther, published in Leipzig by K. Grethlein in 1909 for general readers and students of art. Its plates are halftone reproductions of old master paintings: a religious panel with an angel above a crowd, a dim interior with a kneeling figure, a bearded father embracing a kneeling son, and a devotional altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and donors. A designer might take the dark chiaroscuro lighting, tight groupings of figures in architectural interiors, and the warm sepia tones of these reproductions.
