This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... which when drawn out support the low turn-back, are also ornamented with like groups. The virtuosity of the wood carvers here celebrates its full triumph; but the quiet perfect effect, the noble harmony of the Italian cabinet is no longer present in this superabundance of decoration. The desire to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... which when drawn out support the low turn-back, are also ornamented with like groups. The virtuosity of the wood carvers here celebrates its full triumph; but the quiet perfect effect, the noble harmony of the Italian cabinet is no longer present in this superabundance of decoration. The desire to make the receptacle of precious things superb certainly often led to bad taste. It is this flamboyant furniture of circa 1600 which shows a decisive deterioration of Italian taste. Bedsteads Bed-chambers and their most important articles of furniture have been repeatedly painted and represented in reliefs (figs. 3-5 and 35--43). The Birth of the Virgin, St. John the Baptist, the Annunciation, the Mira 19. Venice after 1500. Chest with Velvet Mountings Arts and Crafts Museum, Leipzig and at the same time serving as sitting accomodation '). They were always shaped like simple boxes with flat profiles, but where money was no object to their owners, they were ornamented with intarsia work and sometimes even with paintings2). In the XVth century some bedsteads had long boxes of almost the same size, called carriola or lettucino under the bed, which could easily be drawn out at the foot and may have served as sofas by day3). As a rule the bedstead projected far into the room, the head being placed against the wall; sometimes the whole length was set against the wall or it occupied a niche4). So common were chest steps that ') Examples in Palazzo Davanzati (fig. 59) and in the Villa Palmieri near Florence (Illustr. in Hunter's Work, Plate 4).-') In inventories painted bedsteads are often mentioned, there is one in the Ospedale del Ceppo in Pistoia (fig. 273). 3) Vide: "L'Arte e la Casa" in Rassegna d'Arte antica e moderna VII (1920) p. 53, ...
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Seller's Description:
Collectible; Very Good. 1921 1st edition. Clean and solid and VG to VG+ in its original green cloth, with pasted-on, decorative, gilt-lettered title to front panel and lightly-chipped and faded spine label. Tall quarto, 246 pgs. Neat, small former owner signature to front pastedown and light, inconspicuous spotting along rear endpapers.
