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Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)

Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 41

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ll plainly discernable.The beautiful buildings of the Persian kings were erected by artists who were made prisoners in the wars in Babylonia, Egypt, and in the Grecian colonies in Asia Minor. The first beginnings in Persian art were very probably made by the Medes, a people who conquered the… … PERSIAN ORNAMENT. 31 in the 7*** century B. C. an then founded a powerful state making Egbatana thecapital, but who were, later on themselves subjugated in the year 550 B. C. bythe Persians under Cyrus. No remains, however, of a special Median art haveever been discovered. Persia developed into the…

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