The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 19 The chair of St. Maximian, preserved at Ravenna,is covered with ivory carvings, and is one of the finestexamples of Byzantine work. Much of the furniture of the early centuries of Chris-tian art is represented in the Byzantine illuminatedmanuscripts. Beds and couches kept the old Romanforms with the turned legs. Chariots must have beenused very much, as the old game of chariot rac
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 19 The chair of St. Maximian, preserved at Ravenna,is covered with ivory carvings, and is one of the finestexamples of Byzantine work. Much of the furniture of the early centuries of Chris-tian art is represented in the Byzantine illuminatedmanuscripts. Beds and couches kept the old Romanforms with the turned legs. Chariots must have beenused very much, as the old game of chariot racing waskept up by the Byzantines. The Iconoclasts of theEastern Empire under Leo the Isaurian (A. D. 726)— THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 37 whose injurious rule lasted about one hundred andtwenty years—were responsible for much destruction. Figure 20 of sumptuary furniture, as well as for other productionsof an artistic nature, but at the same time they werethe indirect means of causing a new development in artin the western parts of Europe, and more particularly in 38 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER the Rhenish Provinces, by driving the Byzantine artistsand craftsmen to these places, where they were wel-comed by Charlemagne, and by his powerful nobles andchurchmen. In the course of time they succeeded infounding the school of art known as Rhenish-Byzan-tine. The finest illustrations of this art are seen in themagnificent enamelled reliquaries or shrines. The gilt-bronze chair of Dagobert is of Romanesque design, andis one of the earliest pieces of furniture of the MiddleAges (see Fig. 19). Another mediaeval chair orthrone is high seated, and exceedingly rich in design(Fig. 20). It is of Scandinavian origin, and is a goodexample of the Romanesque style of Northern forms of the Romanesque are seen in the furni-tur
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