Needlework as ArtSampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886 - 422 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiv
... periods - Lyons - Spain - Italy - Flemish towns - Marco Polo - Satin - Welsh poem , " Lady of the Fountain -Chaucer - Velvet - Transference of work to new materials PAGE 82 118 CHAPTER V. - COLOUR . Harmony and dissonance - Names of ...
... periods - Lyons - Spain - Italy - Flemish towns - Marco Polo - Satin - Welsh poem , " Lady of the Fountain -Chaucer - Velvet - Transference of work to new materials PAGE 82 118 CHAPTER V. - COLOUR . Harmony and dissonance - Names of ...
الصفحة 7
... periods , shows it changing so slowly , that we feel as if it had been all but stationary from the beginning . The Chinese claim 5000 years as the life of their history ; but if , as is now suggested , their civilization is Accadian or ...
... periods , shows it changing so slowly , that we feel as if it had been all but stationary from the beginning . The Chinese claim 5000 years as the life of their history ; but if , as is now suggested , their civilization is Accadian or ...
الصفحة 14
... period in Britain.1 How long ago this was , we may conjecture , but can never finally ascertain . Then I find embroidery named by the earliest historians , by every poet of antiquity , and by the first travellers in the East ; and it ...
... period in Britain.1 How long ago this was , we may conjecture , but can never finally ascertain . Then I find embroidery named by the earliest historians , by every poet of antiquity , and by the first travellers in the East ; and it ...
الصفحة 15
... period , short or long . It fades , it wanes , and then some historical element enters on the scene , which carries with it new materials , needs , and tastes ( either imported or springing up under the new conditions ) . The style of ...
... period , short or long . It fades , it wanes , and then some historical element enters on the scene , which carries with it new materials , needs , and tastes ( either imported or springing up under the new conditions ) . The style of ...
الصفحة 17
... periods ; extracting , as far as we may , rules for the beautiful and the commendable , and seeking to find the " why ? " also observing the operation of the law by which decay follows too soon after the best and highest efforts of ...
... periods ; extracting , as far as we may , rules for the beautiful and the commendable , and seeking to find the " why ? " also observing the operation of the law by which decay follows too soon after the best and highest efforts of ...
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الصفحة 303 - The king's daughter is all glorious within: Her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
الصفحة 34 - Fair wreaths had the maidens, and the youths daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. And now would they run round with deft feet exceeding lightly, as when a potter sitting by his wheel that fitteth between his hands maketh trial of it whether it run : and now anon they would run in lines to meet each other. And a great company stood round the lovely dance in joy...
الصفحة 290 - Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
الصفحة 11 - Her in the palace, at her loom she found; The golden web her own sad story crown'd, The Trojan wars she weaved (herself the prize) And the dire triumphs of her fatal eyes.
الصفحة 406 - ... piscis which encloses Our Saviour. The two compositions representing the Institution of the Eucharist, on the shoulders, are better executed and more original. In each of them, Our Saviour, a stiff but majestic figure, stands behind the altar, on which are deposited a chalice and a paten or basket containing crossed wafers. He gives, in the one case, the cup to S. Paul, in the other the bread to S. Peter, — they do not kneel, but bend reverently to receive it ; five other disciples await their...
الصفحة 34 - Also did the glorious lame god devise a dancing-place like unto that which once in wide Knosos Daidalos wrought for Ariadne of the lovely tresses. There were youths dancing and maidens of costly wooing, their hands upon one another's wrists. Fine linen the maidens had on, and the youths well-woven doublets faintly glistening with oil Fair wreaths had the maidens, and the youths daggers of gold hanging from silver baldrics. And now would they run round with deft feet exceeding lightly, as when...
الصفحة 273 - It is the history of the attainment of self-conscious freedom by the human spirit manifested in the European races. It is no mere political mutation, no new fashion of art, no restoration of classical standards of taste. The arts and the inventions, the knowledge and the books which suddenly became vital at the time of the Renaissance, had long lain neglected on the shores of the dead sea which we call the Middle Ages.
الصفحة 405 - It is a large robe of stiff brocade, falling in broad and unbroken folds in front and behind, broad and deep enough for the Goliath-like stature and the Herculean chest of Charlemagne himself. On the breast the Saviour is represented in glory ; on the back, the Transfiguration ; and on the two shoulders, Christ administering the Eucharist to the apostles. In each of these last compositions our Saviour, a stiff but...
الصفحة 261 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
الصفحة 11 - Here, as the queen revolved with careful eyes The various textures and the various dyes, She chose a veil that shone superior far, And glow'd refulgent as the morning star.