Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 412
ma, atRome. These grottesc]ies were painted in a kind of frescoor tempera on a white ground with a fairly bright varietyof colouring. Some portions of the decorations wereexecuted in stucco relief made of a composition of lime andmarble dust, and were sometimes gilded. Giovanni daUdine, or… … Fig. 419 —Pan. Wall Painting at Herculaneum. (B. (1492-1546) in a similar kind of decoration at the ducalpalace of Mantua. The latter artist executed the principalfigure work at Mantua, and also at the Villa Madama. There is no lack of good examples of Italian ornament,especially in carved marble…
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