Storia dell'arte italiana
Storia dell'arte italiana is a 1901 Milan survey of Italian art by the art historian Adolfo Venturi, published by Hoepli for students and general readers. Its plates are black-and-white photographs and line drawings of objects: a bronze-panelled church door from Milan, a sword hilt, cross-shaped metalwork with pierced interlace, and a Bible miniature showing figures in a fenced garden. A designer might take from them the dense, carved decorative patterns of medieval metalwork and manuscript borders.
