Monuments of art: showing its development and progress from the earliest artistic attempts to the present period : in two volumes: Plate I to LXIII, with eleven additional plates
This is a late nineteenth-century German architectural survey, Monuments of Art, published in 1880 and edited by August von Voit, Ernst Karl Guhl, Josef Caspar and Wilhelm Lübke for students of art history. Its plates set cave temples, column capitals, dome coffers and ground plans side by side, with plan drawings beneath perspective views of interiors and ruins. A designer could take from them the clean architectural linework, the repeated grid of plans and the coffered and columned geometry of classical and Indian sacred spaces.
