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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1900)

Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 120

An illustration from An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth, 1900, leaf 120 — years. In some of these designsthere is an optical delusion gainedby false shading, imitating reliefs.The plaster work is set off withan enormous amount of gilding,and the subjects of the paintings,etc., if not treating of Romanor semi-Roman mythology, wereof a warlike semi-heroic character.Such a…

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