Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 33
Modem Gothic Sola. 28 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. Normandy, stopping with his knights at Constantinople, on his pilgrimageto Jerusalem, found the descendants of the old Roman Empire therealready so Orientalized that they contentedly sat upon the ground withno benches in the audience… … Another Italian Bench; Tapestry, Subject The Prodigal Son. my and a civilization unknown to them had chagrined the Normans, andmade them glad to boast of the one thing where they exceeded; for,throwing off their cloaks, they sat upon them, and when, on their depart-ure, the Greeks ran after them…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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