This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... in it, otherwise such fine castings could not have been produced. With the decline of skill in making the patterns the taste naturally became corrupted, and the molding less and less perfect, until eventually it lost all artistic value) even in the beginning of the present century the art of molding was still in a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... in it, otherwise such fine castings could not have been produced. With the decline of skill in making the patterns the taste naturally became corrupted, and the molding less and less perfect, until eventually it lost all artistic value) even in the beginning of the present century the art of molding was still in a very primitive state. When the taste for artistic design began to revive, the hands, still rough and unskillful, were led to better and higher-class productions, which elevated the taste. From "Engineering," 1873. When the appreciation of elegant forms shall have become general, then, and only then, we shall have in all branches of industry products equal to those of the sixteenth century, and the debased taste, now too common, will gradually disappear. The necessity of extending art to all departments of industry occurred, nearly forty years ago, to Mr. Schott, who was at that time engaged on the Brunswick Works, the Oarlsimtte, and the Wilhelmshiitte, both works being still famed for the excellency of their foundery produc tions. He is now, and has been for thirty-five years, the managing director of the Ilsenberg Foundery, and from the first he sought to cultivate art in the productions of the works. The results of his exertions in this direction are shown by the exhibits of castings of works of art in the German annexe for art and industry at the Vienna Exhibition. The Ilsenberg Foundery exhibits at the Vienna Exhibition art-castings, which represent chiefly objects of the Roman period, of the Middle Ages, of the Renaissance period, and generally of such well-known works produced by master-hands as are most suitable for reproduction in iron. They are worthy of all praise for the clearness of the castings, and especially for beauty o...
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