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Italian Renaissance wood mosaic, (1898). Creator: Unknown.

Italian Renaissance wood mosaic, (1898). Fig 1: From the choir-stalls in S. Anastasia at Verona. Fig 2: From the dado of the vestry-shrines in S. Maria in Organo ibid. Figs 3-7: From the choir-stalls ibid.Fig 8: From the choir-stalls in Monte Oliveto maggiore. Figs 9-10: From the choir-stalls in S. Petronio at Bologna. (Ground of the centre-compartments black). Figs 11-13: From the choir-stalls in the Certosa near Pavia. (In Fig 12 ground black)...Wood-carving in general was highly flourishing, as is known, in the Renaissance-period, especially however (in the highest degree) one branch of it, termed Intarsia, i. e. inlaid wood-work, with which stalls, shrines in vestries etc., were most richly decorated...'. Plate 48 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898].
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Title:
Italian Renaissance wood mosaic, (1898). Creator: Unknown.
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Italian Renaissance wood mosaic, (1898). Fig 1: From the choir-stalls in S. Anastasia at Verona. Fig 2: From the dado of the vestry-shrines in S. Maria in Organo ibid. Figs 3-7: From the choir-stalls ibid.Fig 8: From the choir-stalls in Monte Oliveto maggiore. Figs 9-10: From the choir-stalls in S. Petronio at Bologna. (Ground of the centre-compartments black). Figs 11-13: From the choir-stalls in the Certosa near Pavia. (In Fig 12 ground black)...Wood-carving in general was highly flourishing, as is known, in the Renaissance-period, especially however (in the highest degree) one branch of it, termed Intarsia, i. e. inlaid wood-work, with which stalls, shrines in vestries etc., were most richly decorated...'. Plate 48 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]
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3843 x 5799 px | 63.8 MB
Print size:
32.5 x 49.1 cm | 12.8 x 19.3 in (300 dpi)