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    Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament: 100 Plates, Including 75 in Full Color
    Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament: 100 Plates, Including 75 in Full Color
    Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament: 100 Plates, Including 75 in Full Color
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    Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament: 100 Plates, Including 75 in Full Color

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    One of the great anthologies of historic ornament and design, on a par with Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament and Racinet's Historic Ornament, Dolmetsch's dazzling collection of over 1,500 illustrations — most in full color — is a veritable treasure chest of royalty-free images. Artists, designers, and hobbyists will also find design inspiration on every page, with images of artistic ornaments from antiquity through the 19th century, when this volume was originally assembled. Arranged chronologically, coverage begins in the ancient world, with designs from Roman architecture and sculpture, mosaic floors of Pompeii, and Byzantine embroidery. From the Middle Ages come illuminated manuscripts and stained glass decorations. Items dating from the Renaissance and later include Italian glass painting, pottery, and lace; French tapestry and block printing; and German metal work and weaving.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9780486155852
    Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament: 100 Plates, Including 75 in Full Color

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      Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament - Dover Publications

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2003 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2003, is a new selection of illustrations (including all 100 full-page plates) from the third, enlarged edition (dritte, vermehrte Auflage) of Der Ornamentenschatz: Ein Muslerbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus allen Kunstepochen, first published by Verlag von Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, in 1897. An English-language edition, entitled Ornamental Treasures: A Collection of Designs from India, China, Japan, Italy, German, France etc. of All Styles and Times Comprising 100 Plates witch Explanatory Letterpress, was published in 1898, also by Hoffmann; a second, revised edition came out in 1912.

      DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

      This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501.)

      However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Dolmetsch, H. (Heinrich), 1846-1908.

      [Ornamentenschatz. English]

      Pictorial encyclopedia of historic ornament / edited by H. Dolmetsch.

      p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series)

      A new selection of illustrations from the third, enlarged edition (dritte, vermehrte Auflage) of Der Ornamentenschatz : ein Musterbuch stilvoller Ornamente aus alien Kunstepochen, first published by Verlag von Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, in 1897. An English language edition, entitled Ornamental treasures: a collection of designs from India... was published in 1898, also by Hoffmann—Copyright p.

      9780486155852

      1. Decoration and ornament—History. 2. Decorative arts—History. I. Title. II. Series.

      NK1530.D6513 2003

      745’.03—dc21

      2002041767

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Sources of Illustrations

      1. EGYPTIAN: PAINTING AND ORNAMENT

      2. EGYPTIAN: ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING

      3. ASSYRIAN: PAINTING, POLYCHROME SCULPTURE, AND POTTERY

      4. GREEK: ORNAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE

      5. GREEK: POLYCHROME ARCHITECTURE

      6. GREEK: POTTERY

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