Parma
A 1913 art volume on Parma, Italy, published in Bergamo by the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche and written by Laudedeo Testi for readers interested in Italian art and architecture. The photographic plates show a rotated church facade, a fresco of two embracing figures in a spandrel with Greek key borders, a columned nave with a coffered ceiling and altarpiece, and a carved Romanesque tympanum with a seated Christ and a row of figures below. A designer could take from them the strong contrast of dark, shadowed stone and the dense, layered compositions of architectural and sculptural decoration.
