A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century;
Crowe and Cavalcaselle's survey of Italian painting from the second to the sixteenth century, reissued by Dent in London in 1908 for art historians, students and collectors. Halftone plates reproduce frescoes and altarpieces — enthroned Madonnas, Annunciations under coffered arcades, lamentation groups — with soft grey tone, arched and pointed plate shapes, and worn plaster surfaces.
