Florence in poetry, history, and art
A 1913 anthology of poetry, history, and art criticism about Florence, compiled by Sara Agnes Ryan and published in Chicago for American general readers and students of Italian art. The plates are coarse-screened halftone reproductions of Florentine frescoes and altarpieces, grainy and high in contrast, showing crowded ranks of standing figures, deep arcades and coffered vaults, enthroned Madonnas with attendant saints, and ceiling-borne angels; useful for architectural framing devices, tiered crowd compositions, and blown-out grey tonal texture.
