The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . 1-. funulure Silk : tollalnc Exhibit of Saxony. tu re, which wasafterwards ab-sorbed in themore purely ar-chitectural typesdiat obtained inthe quatro cento,or fifteenth cen-tury, period. Inthe best periodof the Renais-sance it does notappear at all;but later, whenwhat should haveremained purelyarchitectural fea-tures were im-parted to fur-niture, makingcabinets likemimic temples,etc., which re-quired joineryconstruction oth-erwise uselessand unnecessaryin such articles,the mediaeval or-namentation wasrevived andgrafted on
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . 1-. funulure Silk : tollalnc Exhibit of Saxony. tu re, which wasafterwards ab-sorbed in themore purely ar-chitectural typesdiat obtained inthe quatro cento,or fifteenth cen-tury, period. Inthe best periodof the Renais-sance it does notappear at all;but later, whenwhat should haveremained purelyarchitectural fea-tures were im-parted to fur-niture, makingcabinets likemimic temples,etc., which re-quired joineryconstruction oth-erwise uselessand unnecessaryin such articles,the mediaeval or-namentation wasrevived andgrafted on toarabesque orna-ment, which in INDUSTRIAL ART. 443 turn surpassed all previous styles in the richness and variety, if not in theexcellence, of its designs. Still later, when the decadence of art is mostmanifest, we find the several styles hopelessly confused, and articles of furniturein which the designers principal aim seems to have been to get as much and as many varietiesof ornament intoa given spaceas his ingenuitycould devise. Toany one familiarwith the vigor-ous s
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