Architettura italiana
A late nineteenth-century Milan survey of Italian architecture by Alfredo Melani, issued by Hoepli for students and architects, with plates showing building facades. The pictures are black-and-white engraved plates of palace fronts, with arcades, rusticated stone, arched windows and sculpted statues drawn in crisp, even line. A designer could take from them the rhythm of arches, banded pilasters and decorative panels as ready reference for classical ornament.
