Needlework as art . ces ; and having servedlast in pagan Rome for pagan purposes, had beenslightly refashioned for Christian decorative art,1 beforethe Byzantine inartistic taste, and barbaric splendour ofmetal-work patterns, had extinguished all the gay fancyof the arts of Southern Europe. The mediaeval revival was a return to the light andfantastic, and a protest against the solemnity of all Gothicart, which had had its great day, had culminated, and diedout. The patterns of the Renaissance are all guided bythe principles of repetition and duplication, or that ofdoubling the pattern, which r
Needlework as art . ces ; and having servedlast in pagan Rome for pagan purposes, had beenslightly refashioned for Christian decorative art,1 beforethe Byzantine inartistic taste, and barbaric splendour ofmetal-work patterns, had extinguished all the gay fancyof the arts of Southern Europe. The mediaeval revival was a return to the light andfantastic, and a protest against the solemnity of all Gothicart, which had had its great day, had culminated, and diedout. The patterns of the Renaissance are all guided bythe principles of repetition and duplication, or that ofdoubling the pattern, which repeats itself to right and left,as if folded down the middle. The principal lines thus echoed one another ; but theartist was permitted to vary the conventionalism of thegeneral forms of figures, flowers, fruit, or butterflies, soas to balance and yet differ in every detail. Amongst the conventional patterns which have de-scended to us, and are in general use without any1 In the earliest days of Christianity. PL jj 2» 3. 7- Japanese. 4. Chinese. 5. S, 9. Mediaeval. 6. Bad^e of Richard II Cloud Patterns. Page 109. PI. 30.
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