La messe dans l'histoire et dans l'art, dans l'ame des saints et dans notre vie
A 1906 French Catholic devotional study of the Mass, written by Joseph Hoppenot and published in Lille, offering a history of the rite through art and the lives of the saints. Its illustrations are black-and-white engravings and reproductions of medieval and early modern scenes of priests at the altar, kneeling servers, and crowds at worship. A designer might take from them the layered compositions with cloud-framed visions above the altar, the decorated initial letter, and the dense hatched textures of woodcut-style line work.
