Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries
John C. Van Dyke's 1907 Scribner's handbook for American museum-goers, teaching how to look at paintings in the great European galleries. Plates are coarse halftone reproductions of Renaissance and Baroque canvases—Tintoretto, Veronese and their contemporaries—printed dark, with crushed blacks, blown highlights and heavy borders; useful for high-contrast crowd groupings, vaulted interiors and figures that read as silhouette.
