Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 145
eePeriods above treated and it will be easy to distinguish betweenthem. Under Louis XIV there was an honest effort to produce adistinct art Period by the use of purely decorative motives fromthe Renaissance, excluding the chimerical. The Louis XV Period was dominated by no such ambition,but by the… … SPANISH. SPAIN, or the Peninsula Iberia, as it was known to the ancients,had no decorative art worth mentioning until the time•when it was overrun by the Moors, 710-713, when the conquer-ors introduced the Moorish style. In Spain this, under the name■of Moresque or Hispano-Moresque, reached its…
Decoration and ornament -- History · Interior decoration
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