Mantua
Mantua by Selwyn Brinton, published in Leipzig by E.A. Seemann in 1907, is an art book surveying the city's painting and decoration for an art-interested readership. Its halftone plates reproduce Renaissance frescoes: a courtly scene of seated figures and standing attendants in an architectural setting, a horizontal band of mythological figures in boats and clouds, caryatid-like female figures supporting a ceiling cornice, and an octagonal ceiling panel with a reclining figure. A designer could take from them the crowded, stacked compositions, the framing of figures within architecture, and decorative ceiling borders.
