Giambattista Bodoni designed the Bodoni typeface in the late 1700s. This is the most “modern” serif font, and such features can be recognised as high contrast between thick and thin strokes, flat ...
In 1922 Mardersteig moved to Montagnola di Lugano in Switzerland, founded a hand press, the Officina Bodoni, and began producing books. Mardersteig designed his own printer's mark after ...
In this altarpiece, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo conceived the traditional subject of the Virgin and Child with interceding saints as if the two figures have miraculously appeared on an altar in a ...