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 79
ce. They understood,however, how to change all these influences in such a way as to give themthe stamp of their own national art. At the period of their subjugation by the Romans, the Etruscans had broughttheir own art to such a high state of development that it was able to exercisean influence by… … ETRUSCAN ORNAMENT. 69 Plate 31. Fig. 1, Relief, travelling-carriage (Baumeister). 2. Antefix of a tomb (Martha). 3. and 8. Etruscan bigas with bronze casing. These were found in Norchia andpurchased by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. 4. Etruscan frescoes (Martha). 5. Bronze candelabrum…
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