# Italian Rationalism × Novecento Italiano — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=italian-rationalism+novecento-italiano
# Italian Rationalism carries the structure. Novecento Italiano appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Italian Rationalism (Style, 1926–1943) and its accent from Novecento Italiano (Style, 1922–1943). Structural cues: White volumes and a regular rhythm of bays; Deep overhangs and bands of shadow; Marble set against glass; Classical proportion, translated. Accent cues, used sparingly: Simplified, solid bodies; Emphatically frontal composition; Subdued earth colour; Mass recalling classical sculpture. Composition: A strict frontal grid whose bays are equal and whose voids are not, so that the rhythm is regular and the reading is not.. Type and lettering: A geometric sans set to the same module as the bays, with the leading derived from the same proportion.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Fresco-like matte surfaces in ochre, terracotta and stone grey, lit so that mass is modelled and almost nothing casts a shadow.. Mood: Trust, Luxury, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Italian Rationalism: Keeping the white box and dropping the proportion: without the underlying ratios it is generic modernism, and the whole argument of these buildings was that the ratios were still present.
# - Novecento Italiano: Taking the monumental frontality as neutral good taste: the same devices were built to speak for a state, and used without that awareness the work carries an argument its author did not intend.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/italian-rationalism/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/novecento-italiano/design.md