The world of ornament : complete coloured reprint of L'Ornement polychrome (1869-1888) & L'Ornement des tissus (1877) /

The world of ornament : complete coloured reprint of L'Ornement polychrome (1869-1888) & L'Ornement des tissus (1877) / Welt der Ornamente : vollständiger kolorierter Nachdruck von L'Ornement polychrome (1869-1888) & L'Ornement des tissus (1877) Univers de l'ornement : réimpression complète en coleur de L'Ornement polychrome (1869-1888) & L'Ornement des tissus (1877) A. Racinet & A. Dupont-Auberville ; introduction by David Batterham. - Koln : Taschen, c2015. - 821 pages : colored illustrations ; 21 cm. - Bibliotheca universalis .

"Complete coloured reprint of L'ornement polychrome (1869-1888) & L'ornement des tissus (1877)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Primitive art -- Egyptian art -- Assyrian art -- Greek art -- Ertuscan art -- Greco-Roman art -- Late antiquity -- Chinese art -- Japanese art -- Indian art -- Indo-Persian art -- Persian art -- Arab art -- Moorish art -- Ottoman art -- Celtic art -- Byzantine art -- Russian art -- Armenian art -- 1st-8th centuries -- The Middle Ages -- Renaissance -- 16th century -- 16th-18th centuries -- 17th century -- 18th century -- 19th century

The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875-1888) and M. Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus (1877) to provide one lavish source book spanning jewelry, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, textile and ceramic ornament.


Text in English, German and French.

978-3-8365-5625-5

2015510136


COLOR DECORATION AND ORNAMENT --THEMES, MOTIVES.
TEXTILE DESIGN --THEMES, MOTIVES.

NK 1548 W67 2015

745.4

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