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 55
, the Corinthian. III. The Period when Greek art reached its principal development from470 to 338 B. C, during which time the Doric and Ionic Orders exer-cised their influence mutually one on the other. The centre of thisflourishing period was that reached at Athens under Pericles in the… … GREEK ORNAMENT. 45 was begun in the year 425 B. C. but not completed till 408 B. C, isone of the most beautiful monuments of Greek art in existence.IV. The Alexandrian Period from 338 to 146 B. C; this included the deve-lopment of the Corinthian style down to the destruction of Corinth, whichwas…
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