A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century
A two-volume scholarly survey of North Italian painting from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, written by Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle and published by John Murray in London in 1871 for connoisseurs, collectors and art students. The plates are outline engravings after altarpieces and frescoes, giving clean linework for enthroned Madonnas, arcaded architectural settings, musician angels and coffered ceilings.
