. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Plate XI—PART OF THE ST. PETER SERIESGiven to the Beauvais cathedral in 1460. Plate XU JOSEPH PRESEXTINO ,IA(()li TO IHARAOir A fifteenth century Gothic tapestry lent to the BostonJluseiun of Fine Arts bv Mr. Frank (lair )er 258 GOTHIC TAPESTRIES afford real ta2:) utilised 2) instead for the deco
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Plate XI—PART OF THE ST. PETER SERIESGiven to the Beauvais cathedral in 1460. Plate XU JOSEPH PRESEXTINO ,IA(()li TO IHARAOir A fifteenth century Gothic tapestry lent to the BostonJluseiun of Fine Arts bv Mr. Frank (lair )er 258 GOTHIC TAPESTRIES afford real ta2:) utilised 2) instead for the decoration oftheir walls. These jjaintings they called counterfeit arras. Of course, the general effect of Gothic tapestries is like that ofGothic cathedrals, a vertical effect. This \ertical effect is producednot only hy the j^redoniinance of the vertical hatchings of which I havejust been speaking, but also by the main lines of the figures and ofthe composition. There are introduced a great many upright figuresand few horizontal lines or bands. Gothic art is a vertical art, ascontrasted with Classic art which is a horizontal vs vertical art, or abalanced art with the horizontal holding down the vertical. As tapestries approached the Renaissance, horizontal effectsbegin to be accentuated. The sky-line gets lower and lower. Thearchitectiual and decora
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