. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . it of chefs doeuvres), less charming to behold than to read about:its life-size figures being gigantic but inartistic. A peculiarity ofFlemish figure carving is the occasional realistically coloured paintingof the faces. IN GERMANY Slowly filtering through Flanders and the then wealthy Tyrol,the Renaissance made its entryâalmost as late as toEnglandâinto the combination of states then under therule of Charles v. of Germany and the First of Spain;striking even deeper chords in the metaphysical Teutonthan the sensuous Italian; st
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . it of chefs doeuvres), less charming to behold than to read about:its life-size figures being gigantic but inartistic. A peculiarity ofFlemish figure carving is the occasional realistically coloured paintingof the faces. IN GERMANY Slowly filtering through Flanders and the then wealthy Tyrol,the Renaissance made its entryâalmost as late as toEnglandâinto the combination of states then under therule of Charles v. of Germany and the First of Spain;striking even deeper chords in the metaphysical Teutonthan the sensuous Italian; stimulating the religiousReformation in the person of its great protagonist,Martin Luther, and inspiring Albert Diirer to design uuxLD s Chair* GERMAN. among his woodcuts (the concentrated homely treasures of his heart), those exposing the abuses of the Church. ALBERT DURER The influence of Diirer as designer, painter, sculptor, architect,engraver, with his noVjle power of austere line, was paramountin the evolution of the German Renaissance. Decorative rather. PLATE XXIII WROUGHT STEEL CHAIR The Property of Eabl Radkok, Height, 4 ft. 9 in.; width of scat, 2 ft. Longford Castle 3 in.; depth, 1 ft. lOi in. CoxsTRUCTED of wrought steel, and therefore practically imperviousto the attacks of time, this historic chair possesses at least oneother claim to especial notice, being probably the most minutelyelaborated example of decorative furniture in existence. The Germanlove of detail has for once given itself full scope: scarcely a quarterof an inch is left plain, with the exception of the mouldings. Each of the hundred and thirty-six cartouches, or panels, whichdecorate the four sides of the angle-set posts contains some halfdozen minute figures: each cartouche is supported by two largest pediment panel (depicting a Caesarian triumphal pro-cession) holds nearly forty horse and foot soldiers. The total numberof figures on the chau is therefore considerably over a thousand
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