The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history (1910)
Foley, Edwin · London : T.C. and E.C. Jack · leaf 204
BENVENUTO CELLINI the Florentine, whose autobiography gives so forcible a picture ofthe practice of the decorative arts in Italy and France at tliisperiod, and is so entrancing a revelation of his quarrelsome person-ality, that one willingly adds novelist, braggart, and fighter to his THE… … laurels as engineer, musician, designer, and sculptor. Either Cellinislife was a romance, or his Life a romance. Its main events are,fortunately, corroborated from other sources, whilstother incidents are so manifestly of the Munchausenorder of truth that they deceive no one.During the reign of…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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