Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, W. Pickering · leaf 12
of studying from the originals themselves, or from copies drawnwith strict adherence to their peculiar characteristics. On this point theAuthor trusts that the present Collection will be highly conducive to theenlargement of correct taste in all branches of decorative art. Greece and Rome have left… … IV PREFACE. grotesque and fanciful nature. At the period of the Renaissance the eleganttaste of the ancients was blended with mediseval richness and eastern fancy.We look for the best specimens of painted glass in windows from the twelfthcentury to the fifteenth; for florid ornamental architecture…
Decoration and ornament
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