Siena.
Siena is a 1913 illustrated art guide published in Bergamo by the Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, written by Arturo Jahn Rusconi for travellers and art readers interested in the city's Italian Renaissance monuments. Its plates are halftone photographs of Sienese architecture and painted interiors, including a marble altar with carved saints, a library hall with patterned vaults and painted walls, and a fresco of a crowded arched hall with robed figures. A designer might take from them the dense ornamental framing of pilasters, niches and inlaid marble panels, and the layered black-and-white tonal range of old photomechanical reproduction.
