Les maitres tombiers, sculpteurs et statuaires liégeois
A 1909 French-language study by Alfred Micha, published in Liège by M. Thone, on the tomb-makers, sculptors and statuaries of Liège, written for art historians and collectors of sepulchral sculpture. Its plates are black-and-white photographs of stone and marble funerary works: a relief of a school scene, a recumbent effigy of a praying woman, a draped marble group of three figures, and a hexagonal pulpit-like monument with robed figures at each corner. For a designer the strongest takeaway is the sculptural rhythm of draped figures grouped around a column or pedestal, with clear light falling across folds of fabric.
