Furniture and interior decoration of the Italian renaissance (1921)
Schottmüller, Frida, 1872-1936 · New York, Brentano's · leaf 17
or ornamentalpurposes, when only two shades of colouring are used.This may be judged from Ghirlandajos fresco of the Birthof the Holy Virgin, in S. Maria Novella, in Florence,where, moreover, the upper part of the wall showsa relief instead of the (usual) coloured painting(fig. 38). In some cases,… … 6. Fra Filippo Lippi: St. Augustine in his Cell (segment) purposes might have been the reason of their removal).In all cases, however, the panelling terminated at amans height above ground in a profiled moulding witha narrow shelf, where bronze statuettes and small ob-jects of household use were…
