a technics found an early and extensive employment in conse-quence of their being preferred and used for the ornamentation of the fronts of Palaces and churches noless than of the interior of altars, but most particularly of stoves in private rooms. This we find confirmedin many towns along the… … \\a. 22. As to ornamental painting on ivalls and ceilings, the old remnants which Russia can furnish arenot very numerous. They present to us tender creepers with large leaves and flowers in deep colourswhich betray an Oriental origin, and some of them are enlivened by portrait-medaillons…
Decoration and ornament
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