was said above,as to the dependence of historic forms of ornament quiteas much upon technical as upon local or national conditions,that even as late as the seventeenth century the Italiansmith worked very much on the principle of four or fivehundred years before. His straps, as shown on page 167,… … country—but his craft leads him to employ in his own waythe very same device of curling straps, welded together or tiedwith separate straps of iron : in either case the forms of thedesign are not merely those of the thirteenth or the seven-teenth century, but very largely those of the forge.…
Decoration and ornament
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