Examples of household taste . Glass Vase and Epergne : Lobmeyr, Vienna. 44- THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. the styles werefounded. Thecarved furnitureand wood-workof this periodhave never beenexcelled. Thebest artists ofthe day were notunwilling to ex-ercise their skillin this direction,and the exquis-itely ornamentedchests and sculp-tured panels ofthe cinque centopreserved in themuseums andpalaces of Eu-rope attest tothis day the sur-passing skill ofthe workmen. In early me-diaeval or Gothicart there was acertain conven-tionality in theconvolutions offoliated sculptureand other orna-ment
Examples of household taste . Glass Vase and Epergne : Lobmeyr, Vienna. 44- THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. the styles werefounded. Thecarved furnitureand wood-workof this periodhave never beenexcelled. Thebest artists ofthe day were notunwilling to ex-ercise their skillin this direction,and the exquis-itely ornamentedchests and sculp-tured panels ofthe cinque centopreserved in themuseums andpalaces of Eu-rope attest tothis day the sur-passing skill ofthe workmen. In early me-diaeval or Gothicart there was acertain conven-tionality in theconvolutions offoliated sculptureand other orna-mental workadorning furni-. Furniture Silk : Collective Exhibit of Saxo/iy. ture, which wasafterwards ab-sorbed in themore purely ar-chitectural typesthat 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
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