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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 347

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Fig. 331. Frexch Tile Patterns.319 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT and examples of their simple but effective patterning areseen in Fig. 331. Manuscript Decoration. This art, derived originally from Byzantine, elabo-rated in Ireland, England and France in the Roman- … Fig. 33?. Late Gothic Maxiscript Ornaments. esque period, reached a very high state of ])erfection inthe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, developing intodifferent schools of design in France, Flanders, Eng-land, Germany, Spain and Italy. Three differentclasses of design are to be distinguished:…

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