2-755-805 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

French Renaissance wall painting, polychrome painted sculpture, weaving and book covers, (1898). 'Fig 1: Painted frieze on both sides of a chimney in the Hôtel d'Aluie at Blois, style of Louis XII, 1st half of the 16th century. Figs 2: Wood-carved panel from the Castle at Gaillon, style Louis XII, 1st half of the 16th century. Figs 3 and 4: Carved and painted girder-panels on a ceiling in Assize-court at Dijon, style of François I XII, 1st half of the 16th century. Fig 5: Carved and painted ceiling-panel from the Diana-chamber in the Castle at Anet, style of Henri II, mid 16th century. Figs 6 and 7: French-book-covers, 2nd half of the 16th century. Figs 8: Painted wall-panel in the library of the arsenal at Paris, style of Henri IV - Louis XIII, 1st half of the 17th century. Fig 9: Painted wall-frieze from the Castle at Fontainebleau, style of Louis XIII, 1st half of the 17th century. Figs 10 and 11: Painted stucco-friezes from the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre at Paris (by Berain [Jean Bérain]), style of Louis XIV, 2nd half of the 17th century. Fig 12: Border from a Gobelin [tapestry] (by [Charles] le Brun), style of Louis XIV, 2nd half of the 17th century'. Plate 65 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]