Storia dell'arte italiana
Storia dell'arte italiana is a 1901 Italian art history textbook by Adolfo Venturi, published by Ulrico Hoepli in Milan, and written for students and general readers of Italian art. Its pictures are black-and-white halftone photographs of Italian architecture, showing façades, a chapel exterior and a carved doorway with a heraldic shield, with the captions in print below each. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal range and the stone and brick textures of Renaissance building surfaces.
