Baroque Ornament and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486253783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 48 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
I. Clutten said baroque ornament and designs. A small book that has a collection of very well drawn designs. These have all been done in a way that makes it very easy to read the contours for carving projects.. Amazing designs and corner elements - let alone exactly what belongs on the forward square of a Yellow Boy or 1873 Amazon Customer One of my all time favorites for firearms engraving -I've run borders (see Dover Book on Borders) into corner elements with astonishing results - and what DO you put on that forward flat area of the Yellow Boy? Or behind or in front of the plate on the 1873 (or even ON the plate)? You'll find it here -- and it will be beautiful!. While filled wit beautiful illustrations I was looking for more of the style While filled wit beautiful illustrations I was looking for more of the style shown on the cover. There are several pages that have rather flat renditions of the designs. While they are still beautiful I would have liked the whole book to be more shaded, three-dimensional designs.
Early in his career, Stella spent seven years in Florence, working for Medici Prince Cosimo II and enjoying the acquaintance and advice of the master engraver Jacques Callot. In the architecture of St. This book presents engravings executed by Stella's niece after drawings of Classical motifs probably made by Stella during his years in Italy. Peter's in Rome, St. Paul's in London, and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice as well as in the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rubens, the Baroque spirit lives today. Early in his career, Stella spent seven years in Florence, working for Medici Prince Cosimo II and enjoying the acquaintance and advice of the master engraver Jacques Callot. Now this sturdy, inexpensive edition makes them available to a wide audience for convenient reproduction as well as for study, inspiration, and enjoyment.. Baroque art and architecture — extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail — flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism and its mood of barely suppressed passion. Now this sturdy, inexpensive edition makes them available to a wide audience for convenient reproduction as well as for study, inspiration, and enjoyment.Baroq
Michel, originally published in Paris, 1658.. These engravings, first published in Paris in 1658, comprise a magnificent sourcebook of ready-to-use Baroque design, filled with highly embellished individual ornaments, decorative motifs, and a dazzling array of border elements.Included are lush florals and foliates, fruits, leaves, birds, shells, acorns, and more—as individual ornaments and rosettes, as repeating motifs in a frieze, and in other useful arrangements. Early in his career, Stella spent seven years in Florence, working for Medici Prince Cosimo II and enjoying the acquaintance and advice of the master engraver Jacques Callot. Peter's in Rome, St. From the Back CoverBaroque art and architecture—extrava