Colección Labor: Historia de las artes industriales: Antigüedad y Edad Media
A Spanish-language survey of ancient and medieval decorative arts, written by Georg Lehnert and translated by José Camón Aznar, published in 1930 as part of the Colección Labor series for general readers of applied art history. The four pictures show halftone reproductions of a richly ornamented textile or metalwork with paired beasts and heraldic-like motifs, a jeweled panel of gems and cameo-like medallions around a central figure, a sequence of standing robed figures in arched bays with patterned borders, and a relief of enthroned figures under an arch. A designer could take from them the dense symmetrical framing, the repeat of small medallions, and the tension between flat pattern and sculptural figures.
