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, (14579134047)

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Title: 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
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Speltz, Alexander O'Conor, David
Subjects: Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York : E. Weyhe
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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sult being the development of a native, national Style, whose prin-cipal characteristics were the Imperial Roof and the Ogee Arch. Thewood Architecture was also brought by the Renaissance to a highstate of perfection, to which result Scandinavian and Lower Saxoninfluences very probably also contributed. In Polish Art, where local influences were not so powerful, theevidences of Italian Renaissance influences are far more apparentthan in Russia. Renaissance Ornament in Poland. Plate 258. (After Slawomir Odrzywolsky, Die Renaissance in Polen.) Fig. 1. Gold reliquary, 16ih century, in the Treasury of Cracow cathedral 2. Silver candle-stick from the Siglsmund chapel in Cracow cathedral, datesfrom the year 1536.„ 3. Choir stalls in the King Stefan Bathory chapel, Cracow cathedral. In allprobability the work of Santi Gucci.4. Dutch-tile stove in the Castle of Podhorce. Contains the arms of the RzewuskiKrzwada Family, very probably Danzig work. Plate 258. SLAVONIC RENAISSANCE ORNAMENT. 423
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424 SLAVONIC RENAISSANCE ORNAMENT. Fig. 5, and 6. Turret crest over the Sigismund chapel, Cracow cathedral. The angelsand the crown are cast in copper, the cross and ball of wrought copper, all arerichly gilt.