Decorative elements in architecture; random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view (1917)
Paris, William Francklyn, 1871- · New York, John Lane company ; London, John Lane · leaf 258
us thefate that overtook the art of tapestry weaving atthe time of the ushering in of the Christian erawas avoided. The present bears, of course, no resemblance tothe benighted period during which even the memoryof the art perished. The mind cannot conceive ofa repetition of that total eclipse of… … LXXVI. VERTUMNUS AND POMONAby Gorguet THE ART OF PENELOPE sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as the mem-ory of the Greek and Roman art was lost duringthe Byzantine period; but it is conceivable thatwe might lose the technique and the manualability to equal or reproduce them. The maintainance of…
Interior decoration · Decoration and ornament
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