Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 410
o c CI C3 P-1 p ■/) 3 ants when decorating the Loggia of the Vatican. Thintendrils, festoons of fruit, animals, masks, all kinds ofgrotesque forms and birds flying and playing in and outof light scrolls, architectural constructions of a light andfantastic character, and panels of landscapes formed… … Fig. 417.—Objects of Art handiwork, from Pompeii. were executed in tempera colours of bright reds, greens,yellows, blues, and black. The antique grotesques, so 390 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. called from being found on the walls of undergroundchambers, or *grottos, together with the figure subjects
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