Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 423
design when mixedwith the prevailing Renaissance forms. The Orientalcraftsmen who came to Italy, and the great commerce ofVenice and Europe generally with the East, served tocolour in a marked degree the design of the ornamentalarts, and nowhere do we see the purely Arabian strap-work and peculiar… … I^g- 315-—Cover of a Book, Henri-Deux Style; Sixteenth Century. THE DECORA TION OE BOOKS. 405 arrangement. It might have been designed by Ducerceau,but perhaps more likely by Solomon Bernard of Lyons—known as Le Petit Bernard —who was a prolific designerof small pictures for wood-engraved book…
Decoration and ornament -- History · Architecture -- History
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