Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 421
they aresupposed—without, however, any definite proof—to be thework of Gentile or Giovanni Bellini. The book is aromance written and illustrated in the spirit of classical an-tiquity that so deeply coloured the art and literature of theearly Renaissance epoch, A reproduction of the illustra-tions… … Fig. 314.—Illustration from Woodcut of Dantes Inferno ; Fifteenth Century. THE DECORA TION OF BOOKS. 403 the illustration (Fig. 314) from an edition of Dantes Inferno of the same period. A reduced specimen of the flat treatment of a Renais-sance border, from a woodcut which appeared in an editionof…
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