Storia della pittura italiana esposta coi monumenti
Giovanni Rosini's Storia della pittura italiana esposta coi monumenti, published in Pisa by Niccolò Capurro in 1848, surveys Italian painting for scholars and collectors by reproducing frescoes and altarpieces as engraved plates. The reproductions are pure outline engravings without shading: haloed saints, deathbed and Nativity groups, angels on clouds, drapery and architecture reduced to clean contour lines that redraw easily as vector art.
