Tag: Decoration

Owen Jones, Byzantine, ornament, Sofia, Constantinople, Mosaics, Sta. Sofia,

The Byzantine style of art. The Romanesque style. Marble mosaic work. Examples of flowing foliage. Ornamental forms of ancient Persepolis. Ornamentation of the Middle Ages.

Greek-Roman art. Mosaics, painted bas-reliefs and wall paintings.

5/9/20

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Greek-Roman, art, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ornaments, Mosaics, bas-reliefs, wall paintings,

Greek-Roman art. Mosaics, painted bas-reliefs and wall paintings found in Herculaneum and Pompeii. Ornaments from panels, friezes, borders and mural paintings.

Byzantine Art. Mural, paintings, mosaics, and paintings from manuscripts.

5/5/20

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Byzantine, ornaments, Art, mural, paintings, mosaics, paintings, manuscripts

Marginal paintings. Paintings in St. Sophia. Mosaics from Palermo. Enameled border. Paintings at Constantinople.

Cartouches. Specimens. Peinture en camaïeu. France 18th century.

4/10/20

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Auguste Racinet, Cartouche, Camaieu, decoration, Ornaments, Rococo, 18th century

THIS plate terminates the series in which we have successively represented the different phases of the cartouche.

Design of a silk pattern in franco-oriental style. 17th c.

3/9/20

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Designs, Louis XIII, Baroque, Ornaments, Pattern, Racinet

Design of a silk pattern in franco-oriental style based on Persian ornamentation. France at the beginning of the 17th century.

Glass painting in grisaille technique in the Middle Ages.

2/10/20

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Auguste Racinet, Ornament, Stained glass, church windows, grisaille, window roses, middle ages, cathedrals, cathedral, middle ages,

Glass painting of church windows with grisaille window roses. Painting on glass attained its highest excellence in the thirteenth century.

Greco-Roman Antiquities. Pompeian style. Decorative Architecture.

10/26/19

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Auguste Racinet, Ornaments, Pompeian, Pompeii, decoration, ancient

THE purely decorative architecture, which we find represented on the inner walls of the apartments in Herculaneum and Pompeii, seems to belong less to the domain of reality than to that of fancy.

Etruscan Art. Jewels. Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet.

10/20/19

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Auguste Racinet, etruscan, art, jewels, civilization, ancient, Italy

Civilization of ancient Italy. The Etruscans, also obsolete Etrurians, were an ancient people in Etruria who lived in the northern central Italy in the area of today’s regions Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio and called themselves Rasenna according to Dionysios of Halikarnassos.

THE ROSE. BRITISH FLORAL DECORATION 1910.

9/2/19

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Gerbe, Carnation, Roses, Bouquet, Decoration

A PLEA FOR THE ROSE. BEST VARIETIES FOR DECORATIVE WORK. HYBRID TEA ROSES. HYBRID PERPETUALS. TEA ROSES. SINGLE ROSES AND BRIERS. WICHURIANA ROSES. ROSES-CLIMBERS. CHINAS, ETC. DWARF POLYANTHA. MOSS ROSES. GOOD ROSES TO GROW FOR THEIR FOLIAGE. ROSE CONTRASTS. ROSES WHICH MAKE LOVELY DECORATIONS BY THEMSELVES.