The Talbot J. Taylor collection : furniture, wood-carving, and other branches of the decorative arts (1906)
New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 104
e for the embellishment of the churches than for the adornment of houses, which were for the most part of severe simplicity. Then it was the Church that pre- served the arts, which, after the downfall of Rome, threatened to become extinct. In the monasteries, learning was kept alive and art was… … FIG. 81.— CARVED BUST OF A POPE Chap die. French, Sixteenth-Century Mounting the few steps that lead to the gallery, we ascend from there a wide staircase leading to the second lloor, and arrive in the Louis XIV. upper gallery, which is one of the features of the house. It is one hundred and twenty…
Taylor, Talbot James, 1865 · Decorative arts
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