La storia della pittura veneziana
A 1909 Italian art-history volume by Laudedeo Testi, published in Bergamo by the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, surveying Venetian painting through black-and-white photographic reproductions. The plates show Byzantine-style religious images: a framed enthroned Madonna with a jeweled border, standing saints in fresco, and a rotated plate of saints beneath arches. A designer could draw on their gold-ground framing, flat stylized drapery, and haloed figures for historicist or iconographic work.
