2-756-613 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Italian Renaissance ornament in marble and bronze, (1898). 'Fig 1: Door-lintel with marble-frieze in the Palazzo Ducale at Urbino, 15th century. Fig 2: Frieze on a marble-chimney ibid. Fig 3: Console-capital of marble from the church Fonte Giusta at Siena, late 15th century. Fig 4: Frieze on a tomb. Fig 5: Door-frame of bronze from the Ghiberti Gate of the Baptistery at Florence. Fig 6: Panel of a pilaster-strip in marble from the altar in the church Fonte Giusta at Siena. Figs 7 and 8: Door-knockers of bronze. Fig 9: Capital of a column from the portal of the Badia at Florence'. Plate 56 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]