Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 58
d private lifeseem to have shared equally in this splendor of decora-tive equipment. A distinguishing characteristic of all the earlierRenaissance ornament is the feeling for beauty of lineand movement which it displays, and in which it sur- 18 Fig. 2.—B r o n z eCandelabrum,Strozzi Chapel,San… … Fig. 3.—Florentine or Venetian Marriage Coffer, SouthKensington Museum, London. and distribution of detail, are all dominated by a highlydeveloped sense of the intrinsic beauty of rightly com-bined or contrasted curves, of the harmonious rhythm
Decoration and ornament
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