Storia dell'arte italiana
Storia dell'arte italiana is a survey of Italian art by the art historian Adolfo Venturi, published in Milan by Hoepli in 1901 for students and general readers of art history. Its plates reproduce Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings in halftone, with figure groups, ceiling frescoes seen at a slant, and arched altarpieces. A designer might take from them the crowded compositions of illusionistic ceilings and the strong diagonal sweep of sacred scenes arranged in rounded frames.
