Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 416
cento, and anything that had a precedent for exist-ence in the antique was copied or imitated in a modifiedmanner, and improved upon in point of delicacy in thetreatment. Though the arabesques of Raphael and his pupils in theLoggia of the Vatican (1515) have been severely criticisedas being full of… … Fig. 423-—Tabernacle. End of Fifteenth Centun-. Italian. (P.) .396 HIS TORTC ORNA MENT. are certainly distinguished by good drawing and cleverexecution. Doubtless the later achievements in painteddecoration at the Villa Madama and the ducal palace ofMantua had less incongruities of design and were…
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