Polychromatic ornament. One hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediæval art, and including therenaissance and the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries (1877)
Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825-1893 · London, H. Sotheran and Co. · leaf 28
ensity. What completes the value of this mural painting, is that theory further demonstrates that an artificial light of wax or oil, far from weakening this effect, only renders it the more powerful. It is, indeed, the completion of the theory on this subject, that the yellow of artificial lights,… … ASIATIC ART. NDER this title of Asiatic art, as the second of the two fertile sources from which modern art has derived its models, we include all the decorative arts of what is usually called the East, as well as of the extreme East. This arrangement comprises in the same class the productions of…
Decoration and ornament
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