Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . Plate XXV—Italian brocaded damask, seventeenth century Plate XXVI—Modern American figured velvet 40 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS Patterns did not please unless they rose strongly in relief againstthe ground. The line and colour beauties of Oriental and Gothic andRenaissance were sacrificed in order to produce the illu
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . Plate XXV—Italian brocaded damask, seventeenth century Plate XXVI—Modern American figured velvet 40 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS Patterns did not please unless they rose strongly in relief againstthe ground. The line and colour beauties of Oriental and Gothic andRenaissance were sacrificed in order to produce the illusion of in theround. In the attempt to express on flat surfaces the combinationof line, colour and relief, confusion often resulted. Especially bom-bastic is the Baroque of Italy, Flanders and France, of the first halfof the seventeenth century (Plate I of Chapter II). That style atits best, and as interpreted by a genius, is seen in the paintings ofRubens. LOUIS XIV But the style of the last half of the seventeenth century—thatis to say the style of Louis XIV (Plates XIV, XV), which wasextensively copied and imitated in the other countries (Plate XI),though not always skilfully and usually with local accent andtone—was Baroque pruned of its excrescences and brou
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