L'architecture en Italie du VIe au XIe siècle : recherches historiques et critiques
A French-language architectural history by Raffaele Cattaneo and Marc Monnier, published in Venice in 1890, surveying Italian building from the sixth to the eleventh century for scholars of architecture. The three plates show carved relief friezes with interlace, palmettes and foliate scrolls, including a dated frieze from Torcello cathedral of 1008, and a ground plan of a centrally planned church with a curved apse and stair. A designer could take from them the dense, repeating vocabulary of early medieval Italian ornament, built from knotwork, acanthus-like leaves and arcade rhythms.
