Roma
Roma, by Diego Angeli, published in Bergamo by the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche in 1908, is an art book of photographic plates documenting the monuments of ancient and papal Rome. The pictures show arched colonnades and stone passageways, a freestanding triumphal gateway with a small cart in front, a doorway framed by carved reliefs with figures, and a plate of a sculpted frieze of marching figures printed sideways. A designer could take from them the weight of worn travertine, deep shadow under arcades, and the rhythm of repeated classical columns and arches.
