Download or read book 700 Victorian Ornamental Designs written by F. Knight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Download or read book 700 Victorian Ornamental Designs written by F. Knight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-05-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Download or read book Ornamental Borders Scrolls and Cartouches in Historic Decorative Styles written by Syracuse Ornamental Co. and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of beautiful copyright-free line illustrations of intricately carved furniture trimmings. Delicate floral wreaths, scrolls, more.
Download or read book Baroque Ornament and Designs written by Franoise Stella and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in design, Baroque art and architecture flourished in 17th-century Europe. These engravings by a noted French artist perfectly embody the Baroque sensibility through architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, lush florals and foliates, borders, and other striking design elements. 46 illustrations.
Download or read book Pugin s Gothic Ornament written by Augustus C. Pugin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic sourcebook of decorative motifs contains 100 plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements from such architectural landmarks as New College Chapel at Oxford and Rouen Cathedral.
Download or read book Victorian Patterns and Designs in Full Color written by G. A. and M. A. Audsley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All 100 full-color plates — 253 individual designs — from one of the greatest printed volumes from the Victorian era. Panel decorations, bands, borders, ornaments, crestings, diaper patterns, and many more.
Download or read book Florid Victorian Ornament written by Karl Klimsch and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1977-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want intricate and convoluted scrollwork for a poster or newspaper ad? Are you looking for an ornate floral design for your decoupage? Are you into collage or boxes filled with mementos from the recent, florid past? Or do you want to make Victorian greeting cards or bookplates like those you found in your great-grandfather's books? You'll find designs for these and a multitude of other imaginative projects in this rich and impressive collection overflowing with remarkable Victorian ornament. Klimsch's exceptional quality of rendering these designs, his use of clean lines, shading, and three-dimensional effects in the most complex ornaments, is truly remarkable. He captures the Victorian love of the fantastic and exotic, of a riotous imagination that is ultimately controlled and ordered. These examples of Victorian ornamentation are among the very best that can be found today. Florid Victorian Ornament contains more than 700 metal-engraved designs on 102 plates: borders, frames, corners, leaves, scrollwork, strapwork, rosettes, escutcheons, and cartouches in varied sizes and styles. There are floral motifs: leaves, flowers, vines, wreaths, and vases filled with incredibly ornate, ever-spreading, ever-germinating greenery. There are intricate geometric patterns: Greek frets, interlocking circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, rococo extravagances, curlicues beyond description. And there are the perennial lions, swans, serpents, heads, hats, helmets, vegetables, innocent waifs, lovers, and healthy, overripe women. From this vivid collection commercial artists, craftspeople, and designers will find numerous designs they can readily use in advertising and graphics work or for their own personal enjoyment. And if you are a lover of Victoriana, grab this book and revel in excess.
Download or read book Florid Victorian Ornament over 700 Motifs written by Karl Klimsch and published by . This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grammar of Ornament written by Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Cottage Residences written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century Victorian architecture presents 26 cottage designs — including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more — and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans).
Download or read book Medieval Ornament written by Karl Alexander von Heideloff and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decorative arts of the Middle Ages — richly ornate, filled with religious and mythic symbolism — were especially remarkable for the complexities of their design and their inspired craftsmanship. This fascinating volume presents nearly 1,000 illustrations of medieval ornament, consisting mostly of architectural elements from German Romanesque and Gothic churches and other buildings. Originally compiled by the German architect, painter, and engraver Karl Alexander von Heldeloff (1788–1865) as a source of study and inspiration for practicing artists and architects, this grand pictorial archive has been exactingly reproduced from a rare original edition, complete with new English translations of the German captions. The book is filled with precisely detailed engravings of doors, windows, decorative stonework, columns, pedestals, and more. It remains a richly varied resource of authentic images of medieval ornament, ideal for students of architecture and the decorative arts and essential for graphic artists and designers in search of royalty-free illustrations.
Download or read book Treasury of Floral Designs and Initials for Artists and Craftspeople written by Mary Carolyn Waldrep and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical archive of over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers, leaves, and vines in delicate interlacements.
Download or read book 2 286 Traditional Stencil Designs written by H. Roessing and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterfully executed designs in reproductions of two rare catalogs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with intricate floral and foliated patterns, architectural ornaments and design elements, religious symbols and figures, much more.
Download or read book Ornamental Design Prints written by Rudolf Berliner and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prints of designs have always been of utmost importance in architecture, arts and crafts, and interior decoration in European countries. Indispensable to studios, they contributed to the rapid dissemination of ornamental innovations and helped to assert the newest styles. This special edition of Berliner s seminal work uses sumptuous illustrations and informative texts to present the development of engravings of ornament designs and the numerous variations on particular types of motifs. This compendium of the most beautiful, important and unusual ornaments from the fifteenth to the twentieth century offers an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists and those who are passionate about the genre."
Download or read book Victorian Ornamental Design written by Stuart Durant and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 408 Victorian Ornamental Designs written by F. Knight and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of authentic nineteenth-century ornaments, created by one of the era's top designers! Intricate scrollwork, elaborate borders and frames, and scores of other lush Victorian motifs—this fabulous collection contains a versatile array of royalty-free engravings. Reproduced from a rare original edition, these highlights from the pen of artist F. Knight include murals with trompe-l'oeil effects, carved urns, running vines, blossoms, realistic and grotesque animals, and other splendid decorations.
Download or read book Gothic Architecture written by Raphael Brandon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of Gothic architecture traces the distinctively beautiful elements of Gothic style through the medieval churches of Europe. Gathered from a rare two-volume Victorian classic, over 700 meticulously rendered details and illustrations display every intricate aspect of Western culture's most magnificent ecclesiastical structures, including London's Westminster Abbey Church. The only edition of these antique architectural plates in print, this splendid book is a one-of-a-kind source of authentic Gothic design. In page after fascinating page, this rich retrospective features the finest examples of medieval masonwork, woodwork, and metalwork dating back to the thirteenth century. Explore the soaring Gothic characteristics of vaulted ceilings, arched windows, flying buttresses, pointed spires, ornamental filials, and decorative panels, plus doorways, moldings, roofing, porches, door hinges, and other elaborate architectural elements. Filled with fascinating insights into the creation of Gothic-style churches and cathedrals, this sweeping survey also provides lively observations of the medieval period.
