uwmspeccoll:Greek Ornament in The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles Today we are featuring
uwmspeccoll:Greek Ornament in The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles Today we are featuring Greek decorative plates from TheColoured Ornament of All Historical Styles, Part I: Antiquity by AlexanderSpeltz, published in Leipzig, Germany in 1915 by Baumgärtner. The multi volumeportfolio was produced with three color and four color printing based on Speltz’soriginal watercolor paintings. Ina preface to the Part I, Spetz wrote:“Inaccomplishing this work special attention has been paid to the possibility ofeasily finding the text belonging to each figure, and to a classificationaccording to the chronology of art history and archeology, for this work is notmerely intended to be a standard for the polychromatic ornament, but also a resourcefor the study of history of art and archaeology.Ifthis work, whose first part herewith published and whose further parts MedievalPeriod, Renaissance, and Rococo Style, Classicism will follow as soon aspossible, contributes to revive that sense of colours lost in this our prosaictime and helps to restore to our generation that delightful rejoicing inbeautiful forms and colours, the writer’s end has been achieved.” View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Assistant -- source link
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