Smith, Walter, 1836-1886, Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition · New York, R. Worthington · leaf 457
werefounded. Thecarved furnitureand wood-workof this periodhave never beenexcelled. Thebest artists ofthe day were notunwilling to ex-ercise their skillin this direction,and the exquis-itely ornamentedchests and sculp-tured panels ofthe cinque centopreserved in themuseums andpalaces of Eu-rope… … Furniture Silk : Collective Exhibit of Saxo/iy. ture, which wasafterwards ab-sorbed in themore purely ar-chitectural typesthat obtained inthe quatro cento,or fifteenth cen-tury, period. Inthe best periodof the Renais-sance it does notappear at all;but later, whenwhat should haveremained…
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) · Decorative arts
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