Furniture and interior decoration of the Italian renaissance (1921)
Schottmüller, Frida, 1872-1936 · New York, Brentano's · leaf 26
, however, intendedto express architectonic purpose, is a creation of therenaissance. Chests were then ornamented with wood-carvingof manifold designs. The ends were emphasised bydiagonally placed figures, the fronts by pillars, hermae,masks, gorgons, harpies, and other mythologicalbeings,… … 16. Bronze Door Knockers. Venice about 1575 ) Here the question need not be discussed as to how farthe renaissance pictures inserted in chests and panelling- inter-rupted by its illusion of space, the unity of the whole surfaceof the pieces of furniture and the panelling. In any casethey were more…
