2-756-648 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Italian Renaissance wood mosaic, (1898). Fig 1: From the choir-stalls in S. Anastasia at Verona. Fig 2: From the dado of the vestry-shrines in S. Maria in Organo ibid. Figs 3-7: From the choir-stalls ibid.Fig 8: From the choir-stalls in Monte Oliveto maggiore. Figs 9-10: From the choir-stalls in S. Petronio at Bologna. (Ground of the centre-compartments black). Figs 11-13: From the choir-stalls in the Certosa near Pavia. (In Fig 12 ground black)...Wood-carving in general was highly flourishing, as is known, in the Renaissance-period, especially however (in the highest degree) one branch of it, termed Intarsia, i. e. inlaid wood-work, with which stalls, shrines in vestries etc., were most richly decorated...'. Plate 48 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]