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A grammar of colouring : applied to decorative painting and the arts (1896)

Field, George, 1777?-1854, Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878, Field, George, 1777?-1854. Rudiments of the painters' art, or, A grammar of colouring · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 232

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t would be more properly called Trecento. If it cou-j CINQUECENTO. 211 tains, besides these elaborate natural imitations, festoons,scroll-work, and occasional symmetrical arabesques, itis of the Quattrocento, the Italian Renaissance of thefifteenth century ; aud if it displays a decided pro-minence… … Fig. 37.—Chimney-piece, Louvre, by Germain Pilou (Wornum). naissance, to which all the efforts of the fifteenthcentury tended. The styles we have described all tended to theultimate perfection attained in that now under con-sideration, which was only achieved by the artists ofItaly when the…

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