Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 251
ermans, Flemings and Hollanders 177 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT seem to have played an important part. It was theywho taught the French furniture-makers of the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715).The style developed by theFrench out of this teaching—or rather the three stylesof Louis XIV, XV andXVI—in turn… … Fig. 136.—^Venetian Seventeenth- Century Bronze Knocker. riuu cans lor no special no-tice, except as the patternsused in grilles, window-guards and gates discarded thesimpler forms of the Middle Renaissance and made use
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