A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 128
PAINTING IN FLAT WITH STENCILLING Cairo, and of the fifteenth century of the Christian era. The Persian grace of design and the Persian gift at composing non-natural flower-form and leaf-form can hardly be better shown. … Fig. 155. Door-head of painted tiles from a mosque in Cairo (iMarquand Collection) In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there was in Europe a very great accession to the already respectable knowledge and power over such pattern drawing. It is probable that the importation from the Levant of…
Art · Decorative arts
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![An illustration from Illustrated catalogue of the extraordinary collection of art treasures and antiquities acquired during the past year by Professore Commendatore Elia Volpi ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries [on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1917] (1917)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-illustratedcatal00volp-95-49.webp)
