Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 119
ART IN ORNAMENTATION IO9 meant to be described, viz. how the workmen carried their loaded sacks up a stair. If this subject had been treated in mere outline in perspective, it would not so much satisfy the eye, because then we would merge into imitative art, and in some degree miss the want of… … Egyptian animals executed in Fig. 46. Sculpture. E. Prisse d’Avennes, Animaux, a similar manner. Could any race ovine et bovine (Musee du Kaire. ) person be unreasonable enough 1 How is it that with all our talk at the present day about rules of perspective, high lights, shades, and shadows, etc.,…
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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