L'arte
L'arte is a 1898 art-historical survey published in Rome by Danesi Editore, held by the Getty Research Institute, with photographic reproductions of sculpture and painting for students and scholars of art. Its plates show Madonna and Child compositions in relief and panel: a seated Virgin with the Christ child flanked by kneeling angels, a standing draped female figure in a niche, and a painted Madonna enthroned between two angels. A designer might take from them the symmetrical framing of sacred groups, with angels placed at either side of a central figure beneath arches and gabled canopies.
