Idées italiennes sur quelques tableaux célèbres
Idées italiennes sur quelques tableaux célèbres is an 1840 art-criticism book published in Florence by the Vieusseux cabinet, written by Constantin and Stendhal for readers interested in Italian painting, with Raphael as a principal subject. The first picture is a faint, washed-out architectural drawing of a building with a tilted roofline, while the second is a crisp engraved street view of the Maison de la Fornarina, showing an old Roman house with arched doorways, shuttered windows and a lone pedestrian. A designer might take its tonal restraint, mapped stone facades and clean line hatching as a reference for historic architecture.
