Denkmäler der Renaissance-Sculptur Toscanas in historischer Anordnung
A Munich photographic plate book from 1892 by Wilhelm von Bode and Frida Schottmüller, documenting Renaissance sculpture from Tuscany arranged chronologically for art historians and collectors. The pages are sepia photographs of reliefs and roundels: a pair of small framed relief panels of a Madonna and child, a half-round lunette of figures set within a ring of rosettes, and a sheet of three stacked reliefs including a seated figure and a dense cluster of putti. A designer could draw on the carved frames, wreaths of flowers and lunette compositions as classical ornament references.
