Furniture and interior decoration of the Italian renaissance (1921)
Schottmüller, Frida, 1872-1936 · New York, Brentano's · leaf 35
ly in the XVIth cen-tury that lighter stands came into vogue when busts— in imitation of classic Roman models — were taperedoff into an oval and fixed on round profiled socles. In the XVth century busts terminated at the shoulders,their place was on the mantlepiece or above the doors.Now the… … 27. Venice, about 1500, Small Wall Mirror ) Such a one is depicted in one of Carpaccios paintings(fig-. 44) and on Ghirlandajos frescoes, Botticellis St. Hierony-mus and St. Augustinus, in the church Ogni Santi in Florence,and in Pinturicchios Virgin Surrounded by Angels in S.Maria del Popolo, in…
