A guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries: the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia; a critical catalogue, with quotations from Vasari
A 1907 London and New York guide by Maud Cruttwell, with quotations from Giorgio Vasari, cataloguing the paintings in Florence's Uffizi, Pitti and Accademia galleries for art visitors and students. The four plates are black-and-white halftone reproductions of Renaissance altarpieces and devotional panels, including a Madonna with saints, an enthroned Madonna and child flanked by saints, a tondo of the Holy Family, and a half-length penitent woman with hands clasped at her breast. A designer might borrow their rigid symmetrical compositions, dark ground and gilded-era arch framing.
