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Italian Renaissance
Ornamental Paintings
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Another Quality Print from Martin2001
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Type of print:
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Lithograph
- Original vintage antique print |
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Year of printing:
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1888 |
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Artist - Engraver
- Publisher:
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n/a - n/a - Imprimerie Paris |
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Condition:
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Excellent - Very good - Good
- Fair |
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Size of print in
inches:
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9 1/2 x 13 1/2 (24 x 34 cm) |
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Type of paper:
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Thick - Heavier - Medium heavy
- Thin |
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Reverse side:
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Blank - With text or pictures |
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Notes:
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1. Green color is a contrasting background,
not part of the print or a frame.
2. See shipping rates, return, payment policies, etc.
at the bottom of page.
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Legend:
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It was at the commencement of the 15th century, that
the Renaissance style began to make its appearance in Italy, and the period
till about 1500 may be called the period of Early Renaissance, in contra-
distinction of High Renaissance which lasted till the middle of the 16th
century. Renaissance is a new adaptation, not a servile imitation, but
a free treatment of antique forms; the plainest evidence of this is given
by the ornament, of which this style makes a richer and ampler use than
any other. This applies more particularly to the motives we meet with;
and here we observe above all the vegetable ornament, which in Early Renaissance
generally covers the ground only moderately. We find almost everywhere
delicate, beautifully curved branches in a symmetrical or at least regular
arrangement, in which the antique acanthus-leaf acts the principal part,
although, not without the most various transformations. Also vine, laurel,
ivy etc. are frequently employed, partly copying nature directly, partly
idealized. But this foliage with its branches and fruit is still enlivened
by a rich variation of animals, fantastical beings, human figures as well
as symbolical subjects, arms, masks, emblems, vases, candela- bras etc.
Most cultivated is the combination of human figures and animals with vegetable
elements (Fig. 3). Finally a not less important part of the decoration
are coats of arms and escutcheons , the latter usually as so-called horse-front-shields
(Fig. 6 and 9) in the period of Early Renaissance, later on as cartouches.
All we mentioned hitherto is found in facade-painting, i. e. in those paintings
with which the fronts of single houses, for want of plastic adornment,
were entirely faced, showing either ornaments or historical representations.
The colours are bright and harmoniously composed, so that a gorgeous impression
results from such architecture often not only coloured but really painted.
From a later period, when the many-figured historical representations almost
wholly superseded the ornament, one often finds fronts painted in bronze-colour
or in grisaille. Fig. 1-7. From the front of a house in Genoa (Via San
Matteo, No. 10) Front of the court of 'Casa Taverna' at Milan 9-11.
" of Palazzo Piccolomini at Pienza.
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