Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)
Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 118
are shown in the engraving, but the ancient craftsmen were quite as punctilious in covering them in, so as to conceal the joints of the stencil plate, as the most careful of modern workmen. More correct taste has of late inclined to the retention of the ties, and if they are sym¬ metrically… … Fig. 36. — Renaissance. Bead and Riband Border. of artistic culture based upon the examples of the ancients. Cimabue, Giotto, and Andrea Mantegna were the pioneers of this reawakening of an art love that had long slumbered, and aroused their countrymen to a sense of all that was beautiful and noble…
Interior decoration · Color in interior decoration · Mural painting and decoration
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