Padua
Padua is a 1904 art and architecture guide published in Leipzig by E.A. Seemann, written by Ludwig Volkmann for readers of Italian art. The four reproductions are halftone plates of Paduan frescoes and a relief, showing enthroned judges, crowded courtroom scenes, a Madonna with saints, and a greeting at a city gate. A designer might take from them the tight architectural framing of arches, colonnades and niches, and the way groups of figures are arranged in rows around a central focal figure.
