DjVu

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There is no larger collection of ornament in print anywhere today. This more than 600 page volume contains 3765 different illustrations on 400 full page plates! Indispensable for artists, designers, illustrators, architects, craftsmen, students, and anyone else searching for distinctive, authentic design, individual illustrations are royalty-freebuy the book and thousands of unusual drawing are yours for the using. Where are the ornaments from? The vanished civilizations of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, Phoenicia, Judah, India, Greece, Rome, Pompeii, the Celts, the Etruscans from China, Japan, Arabia, India, Cambodia from Russia, Scandinavia, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, England, Austria, Spain, and other countries. What periods are covered? Prehistoric and primitive antiquity the Middle Ages, including early-Christian ornaments of the Lombards, Visigoths, Franks, and Byzantines, Romanesque ornament, Mohammedan ornament, and Gothic ornament Renaissance ornament in Florence, Venice, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland Rococo ornament throughout Europe Colonial style in the United States: nineteenth century classical revival, with designs of Sheraton and Hepplewhite Empire and Biedermeier and Neoclassical ornament in Germany. What design elements and objects? Gargoyles Buddhas dragons capitals, bases, and shafts of columns necklaces, rings, other jewelry urns, vases friezes buildings of brick, wood, stone tables, chairs, mirrors, chests, hardware tapestries and cloths statues suits of armor, helmets, lances mitres fantastic animals, centaurs, cupids religious objects keyholes sedan chair bridges coats of arms and hundreds of others. This wide spectrum of styles will almost literally be a bottomless treasury of source material that you will use again and again, each time finding something different.