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Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900) (14597842588)
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Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library
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ses, of the 14th and 15th centuries,were very large, and provided with feet, so that they would standupon the ground, without being held. The Tilting-shield had a hole cut-away in which the lance was laid. With the introductions of fire-armsthe Shield became worthless, and disappears as an article of practicaluse; but it has continued to be employed for State - purposes downto the present time; and, from a decorative standpoint, these State-shields are of high interest. They offer to metal-workers an except-ionally favourable field for the display of their art. The simplezonal divisions of the Antique Shield have given place to freerdivnsions and a richer decoration with figures and ornaments. Plate 226. The Shield. 1. Roman, with boss, bronze partly-silvered, found near Mainz, Wies-baden, Museum. 2. Etruscan, bronze, Campana collection, (Lart pour tous), 3. Mediaeval, time of the Crusades, (Viollet-le-Duc). 4. Kenascence, time of Henry II of France, hammered metal. METAL OBJECTS. 889
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The Shield. Plate 226. 3U0 The fcihield. — The Helmet. 5. Renascence, decorated in the centre with a rosette and pointed knob, Turin.■. Renascence, with rich decoration of figures, in hammered metal.7. Renascence, hammered silver, by P. van Vianen. The Helmet. (Plate 227.) The armour for the defense of the head is the Helmet. It wasprobably originally made of leather; at a later date it was of metal;and in Modern times it again consists of leather with metal accessories.Its form has suffered many transformations in the course of the cent-uiies, arising sometimes from practical, sometimes from aestheticreasons. The greatest perfection of form is found in the Greek helmet,which, like Antique armour in general, fits very closely to the humanbody. We need only remind the reader of the plain but beautifulHelmets in which Pallas Athene is shown on Antique gems. TheMedusa head and Sphinxes are popular motives of decoration. Thedecoration is most prominent on the front, and on the moveabl
The Etruscan civilization was developed by a people of Etruria in ancient Italy with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered at its greatest extent, roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto, and western Campania. The earliest evidence of a culture that is identifiably Etruscan dates from about 900 BC. This is the period of the Iron Age Villanovan culture, considered to be the earliest phase of Etruscan civilization, which itself developed from the previous late Bronze Age Proto-Villanovan culture in the same region. Etruscan civilization endured until it was assimilated into Roman society. Assimilation began in the late 4th century BC as a result of the Roman–Etruscan Wars; it accelerated with the grant of Roman citizenship in 90 BC, and became complete in 27 BC, when the Etruscans' territory was incorporated into the newly established Roman Empire.
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