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Renaissance and modern art (1894)

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa. : Flood and Vincent · leaf 76

An illustration from Renaissance and modern art, 1894, leaf 76
of decorativedetails, by a moreformal and rigid ap-plication of the Or-ders to wall surfaces.In the early Renais-sance the ornamentalscroll-work is moreelastic and spirited, thecarving of details isbolder and finer, therelief of the projectedcolumns and entab-latures is lower. The higher the… … Fig. 25.—Cathedral of Versailles.Eighteenth Century. forthe jo Renaissance and Modern Art. higher and more numerous the projections of the ornamentrthe deeper and more numerous the shadows. These shad-ows again, when not determined by construction, detractfrom the effects of mass and the repose and…

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