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Historic Ornament, Vol. 1 (of 2) Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament

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Historic Ornament, Vol. 1 (of 2) Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament

by James Ward

EN·~6 hours·25 chapters

Chapters

25 total

HISTORIC ORNAMENT

0:34

PREFACE.

2:54

CONTENTS.

1:26

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

14:18

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

11:51

CHAPTER II. PREHISTORIC ORNAMENT—PALÆOLITHIC PERIOD OR EARLY STONE AGE—RIVER DRIFT AND CAVE-MEN.

7:14

CHAPTER III. NEOLITHIC STONE PERIOD.

2:58

CHAPTER IV. THE BRONZE AGE.

10:59

CHAPTER V. THE IRON AGE.

12:40

CHAPTER VI. THE LAKE DWELLINGS OF SWITZERLAND AND OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.

8:58

Description

Volume 1 "treats of prehistoric art; ancient art and architecture; eastern, early Christian, Byzantine, Saracenic, Romanesque, Gothic, and renaissance architecture and ornament."

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Historic Ornament, Vol. 1 (of 2) Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament

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~6 hours (387K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by KD Weeks, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2019-06-13

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59746

Subjects

Decoration and ornament -- History Architecture -- History Decorative arts -- History NK

About the author

James Ward

1851–1924

A Belfast-born artist, teacher, and writer, he helped shape Irish art education while creating some of Dublin’s most memorable public murals. His books on design and painting show the same practical, generous spirit that marked his teaching.

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