uwmspeccoll:Egyptian Ornament in TheColoured Ornament of All Historical Styles Today we arefeaturing
uwmspeccoll:Egyptian Ornament in TheColoured Ornament of All Historical Styles Today we arefeaturing Egyptian decorative plates from The Coloured Ornament ofAll Historical Styles, Part I: Antiquity by Alexander Speltz, published in Leipzig, Germanyin 1915 by Baumgärtner. The multi volume portfolio was produced with threecolor and four color printing based on Speltz’s original watercolor paintings.In a preface tothe Part I, Spetz wrote:“In accomplishing thiswork special attention has been paid to the possibility of easily finding thetext belonging to each figure, and to a classification according to thechronology of art history and archeology, for this work is not merely intendedto be a standard for the polychromatic ornament, but also a resource for thestudy of history of art and archaeology.If this work, whose firstpart herewith published and whose further parts Medieval Period, Renaissance,and Rococo Style, Classicism will follow as soon as possible, contributes torevive that sense of colours lost in this our prosaic time and helps to restoreto our generation that delightful rejoicing in beautiful forms and colours, thewriter’s end has been achieved.” View more posts about decorative arts and patternbooks.–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern -- source link
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