Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 417
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… … Fig. 424. -Cinquecento Floral Ornament. Acantbus, Oak, Convolvulus, ike. often been said of the decoration in question—that a thickstem should be used to support heavy masses, for it canbe said Avith equal truth that a thick stem may be paintedto look like a weak vegetable flabby stalk—like that of…
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