Ancient Egyptian Ornament in Full Color

Ancient Egyptian Ornament in Full Color
Author: René Grandjean
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Decoration and ornament
ISBN: 9780486443485

All the classic elements are included funerary art, exotic costumes and headdresses, religious iconography, dynamic charioteers, magnificent sailing ships, as well as exquisite patterns from interior and exterior architectural ornamentation. 350 designs."

Full-Color Egyptian Ornament

Full-Color Egyptian Ornament
Author: Dover Publications Inc
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486996794

The beauty and exotic appeal of ancient Egyptian art is revealed in male and female figures, hieroglyphics, florals, geometric motifs, animal shapes, papyrus blossoms, cobras, much more. 251 color illustrations.

Costume and Ornament of the Middle Ages in Full Color

Costume and Ornament of the Middle Ages in Full Color
Author: Henry Shaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-07-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486141861

More than a pictorial archive of medieval dress and decoration, this beautiful collection is also valuable for its discerning scholarship. A magnificent compilation of artwork from Henry Shaw's detailed study of court life in the Middle Ages, this splendid book provides a grand display of medieval figures and fashions of the times. Reproduced directly from Shaw's original, hand-colored plates and identified by brief captions, more than 200 superb illustrations depict knights in battle, ladies in waiting, kings, queens, popes, and commoners, as well as armor and weapons, jewelry, and other decorative accessories. Skillfully adapted from rare paintings, illuminated manuscripts, tapestries, textiles, and stained glass windows, these lovely illustrations will be invaluable to fashion historians and costume designers. Craftworkers will find them equally useful.

Racinet's Historic Ornament in Full Color

Racinet's Historic Ornament in Full Color
Author: Auguste Racinet
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486155463

DIVThe 19th-century French illustrator's classic reference to the decorative ornament of history's major cultures; over 2,000 royalty-free motifs in 100 beautiful full-color plates. /div

Medieval Russian Ornament in Full Color

Medieval Russian Ornament in Full Color
Author: Moscow Museum of Art
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486155625

Over 1,000 motifs reprinted from a rare book of design first published in France in 1870. Ornate Cyrillic and Greek letters, corners, borders, page heads, and more as they appeared in illuminated Russian manuscripts.

Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament

Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament
Author: Auguste Racinet
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 048615548X

Classic sourcebook of spectacular royalty-free design collages, featuring over 1,500 decorative elements and motifs from major cultures in history through the 19th century, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas. Adapted from jewelry, illuminated manuscripts, weapons, tiles, carved wood panels, ceilings, inlay, hardware, ceramics and more.

Full-color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament

Full-color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament
Author: Auguste Racinet
Publisher: Dover
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Classic sourcebook of spectacular design collages, all royalty-free, featuring over 1,500 decorative elements and motifs from major cultures in world history through the 19th century.

Searching for Ancient Egypt

Searching for Ancient Egypt
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0801434823

Lavishly illustrated in color, this book presents a spectacular collection of archaeological and artistic treasures covering the extent of Egyptian art from the Predynastic Period of the fourth millennium B.C. to the Greco-Roman period of the fourth century A.D. The volume features more than 130 objects ranging from architectural elements of a royal palace and funerary chapel to delicate jewelry and textile fragments, and contains many objects never previously shown in print. In an introductory essay David P. Silverman documents major expeditions to sites in Egypt and Nubia and summarizes the new information gleaned about ancient Egyptian civilization. Donald B. Redford provides a general treatment of ancient Egypt history. The objects themselves are introduced with concise essays by recognized Egyptologists: Edward Brovarski, Rita E. Freed, Arielle P. Kozloff, David O'Connor, Edna R. Russmann, William K. Simpson, and Josef W. Wegner. Contributors-- Edward Brovarski, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rita Freed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Arielle Kozloff, Cleveland Museum of Art David O'Connor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Donald Redford, University of Toronto Edna. R. Russman, Brooklyn Museum of Art David Silverman, University of Pennsylvania William Kelly Simpson, Yale University Josef W. Wegner, University of Pennsylvania

Décorations Egyptiennes

Décorations Egyptiennes
Author: Dover
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486484467

Drawn from a 20th-century French collection, this volume interprets classic motifs of ancient Egypt in a dynamic Art Deco style. Hundreds of images include serpents, scarabs, and mythological creatures as well as a profusion of stylized flowers. Individual motifs can serve as striking spot illustrations, and dozens of borders and panels can be used as repeating patterns.

The Grammar of Ornament

The Grammar of Ornament
Author: Owen Jones
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1400882710

A complete and unabridged full-color edition of the classic sourcebook on ornamental design First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources. Jones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today.