. 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 XW Italian liriicaded daiijask. s(\ iiiti-iiitli eeiili]i\ Ilale XX \1 .Modern Anieriean limn-e<l \il\ct 46 DAMASKS, BROCADKS AXl) VKIA K/FS Patterns did not please unless they rose strongly in relief againstthe ground. The line and coloin- l)eauties of Oriental and Gothic andRenaissance were sacrificed in ord
. 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 XW Italian liriicaded daiijask. s(\ iiiti-iiitli eeiili]i\ Ilale XX \1 .Modern Anieriean limn-e<l \il\ct 46 DAMASKS, BROCADKS AXl) VKIA K/FS Patterns did not please unless they rose strongly in relief againstthe ground. The line and coloin- l)eauties of Oriental and Gothic andRenaissance were sacrificed in order to produce the illusion of in theround. In the attempt to express on flat surfaces the conihinationof line, colour and relief, confusion often resulted. Jispecially honi-bastic is the Baroque of Italy. Flanders and France, of the first halfof the seventeenth century (Plate 1 of Chapter II). That style atits best, and as inter])reted by a genius, is seen in the ])aintings ofRubens. xn^ But the style of the last half of the seventeenth century—thatis to say the style of XIY (Plates XIV, XV), which wasextensively copied and imitated in the other countries (Plate XI),though not always skilfully and usually with local accent andtone—was Barotpie pruned of
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