Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 460
tched-board-work and the simple carving generally give the products ofthis time a certain rude appearance; still the architectural dispositionof the members, and the bands and mounts, are effective. Later Gothicled to all kinds of extravagances, one of which is the lavish use ofgeometrical tracery,… … Plate 253. The Cabinet. The Cabinet. 447 Hirth, whom we quoted above, describes the revival of decorationin the transition period, in the following words: In their (woodcarvers, cabinet-makers, and others) hands the prismatic bead wastransformed into the living vine, the stone leaf-work of the…
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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