. Forging of iron and steel, a text book for the use of students in colleges, secondary schools and the shop . ork appeared with the thistle asa base for the design (Fig. 6), origi-nated by a family of smiths namedMatsys, which produced the cele-brated Antwerp well cover. Thethistle combined with tracery wasin vogue until displaced by Renais-sance ornament. Baroque Period. — In the baro-que period the striving after pompand grandeur produced some verylarge pieces of elaborate work usedmostly in the service of courts andprinces. The term, baroque, is un-derstood to mean oval. In thisparticular
. Forging of iron and steel, a text book for the use of students in colleges, secondary schools and the shop . ork appeared with the thistle asa base for the design (Fig. 6), origi-nated by a family of smiths namedMatsys, which produced the cele-brated Antwerp well cover. Thethistle combined with tracery wasin vogue until displaced by Renais-sance ornament. Baroque Period. — In the baro-que period the striving after pompand grandeur produced some verylarge pieces of elaborate work usedmostly in the service of courts andprinces. The term, baroque, is un-derstood to mean oval. In thisparticular style the spirals are squeezed together so asto form ovals, and also are ornamented with foliage(Fig. 7). As this style was used by the architectsalmost exclusively in the buildings of the Society ofJesus, it is often called the Jesuit style. Some of the changes from earlier periods are: Roundbars gave place to square ones; bars that heretoforewere threaded through each other were changed to halv-ing and oversetting; forgings were placed on sheet-ironbackings (Fig. 8); leaves became bolder, and rosettes. Fig. 6 HISTORIC USE OF IRON AND STEEL 13 and acanthus husks were used in profusion. The stylesfor the large pieces were less uniform in appearance thanduring the Renaissance and earlier periods, since theefforts were spent on the prominent parts, and the less
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