Main entry:

Speltz, Alexander.

Title & Author:

The styles of ornament / by Alexander Speltz.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1959.

Description:

vii, 647 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Dover Pictorial Archive Series

Notes:
"Republication of David O'Conor's translation from the second German edition."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-629) and index.
Prehistoric and primitive ornament -- Antiquity. Egyptian ornament -- Babylonian-Assyrian ornament -- Persian ornament -- Phoenician-Hebraic ornanment -- Indian ornament -- Greek ornament -- Etruscan ornament -- Roman ornament -- Pompeian ornament -- Celtic ornament -- The middle ages. Early-Christian ornament -- Byzantine ornament -- Romanesque ornament -- Russian ornament -- Mahometan ornament -- Gothic ornament -- Chinese ornament -- Japanese ornament -- Renaissance and modern times. Renaissance ornament -- Later Renaissance ornament -- Rococo ornament -- Colonial style ornament in the United States -- Ornament of the Classical Revival of the 18th century -- Empire ornament -- Biedermeier or old fashioned style in Germany -- Neogrec ornament in Germany.

ISBN:

0486205576
9780486205571

Subject:

Decoration and ornament.
Décoration et ornement.
Arquitetura.

Added entries:

Dover pictorial archive series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43101
Call No.: 9807; ID:89-B292
Status: Available