, up ordown, according to the classification one may affect.It is an art singularly mobile, capricious, irresponsi-ble and correspondingly interesting; from otheraspects curiously conventional and recurrent, withall the rigidity of tradition shown by, say, Egyptiansculpture, though with the… … From Brilish Costume, Frederick A. Stokes Company HATS IN VOGUE IN THE REIGN OF RICHARD Centuries (Frederick A. Stokes Company) the stu-dent may be tempted to wonder what he would inall candor make of the history of art, now so cheer-fully and so splendidly beguiling, if the clothedhuman figure had…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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