The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant : with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture ... (1910)
Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919 · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 104
104 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER period of the lower Empire, that the furniture then in use was, characteristically wrought, of extraordinary splendour, gilded, incrusted, and inlaid with ivory and jewels to a degree that quite marred its artistic beauty. Of this, much purified by Italian taste,… … traces are to be found in the Venetian works, affected as they were in this, as in other things, by oriental neighborhood and associations. The Venetians im¬ proved these works, be it understood, and chastened, while they truly enriched the tawdry over decoration of the Greeks. Their conquest in…
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