Storia della pittura italiana esposta coi monumenti
Giovanni Rosini's multi-volume history of Italian painting, issued in Pisa by Niccolò Capurro in 1848 for scholars, collectors and art students, illustrating the argument with plates copied from paintings and frescoes. The engravings are pure outline, without shading: Nativities, Madonnas, raisings of the dead and family groups reduced to contour lines for drapery folds, architecture and crowded heads, giving designers clean line art that reads well at any scale or as fill-ready shapes.
