A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century
A multi-volume scholarly survey of Italian painting from the second to the sixteenth century by Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, issued in London and New York in 1908 for students, collectors and art historians. The plates are halftone photographs after frescoes and panels, many by Brogi and Alinari, showing robed figures, hovering angels and tomb scenes with cracked plaster, flaking edges and soft grey tonal range useful as texture and figure source.
