2-756-670 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Medieval weaving, embroidery, enamel and painted sculpture, (1898). 'Fig 1: Statue of St. Simon in the choir of Cologne Cathedral. Fig 2: Pattern on the robe of another statue ibid. Fig 3: Embroidered fonder of French origin. 14th century. Fig 4: Embroidered stuff (in the original, silver is employed instead of gold), 15th century. Fig 5: Embroidered stuff, 14th century. Figs 6-9: Borders and patterns of carpets from the wall-paintings in the upper church S. Francesco at Assisi. 14th century. Fig 10: Pattern of a carpet from a tempera-painting of Niccolo Alunno (1466) in the pinacotheca at Perugia. Fig 11: Sicilian weaving from St. Mary's church at Danzig, 13th century. Fig 12: Border of a carpet on the painting of Hugo van der Goes in the Palazzo degli Uffizi at Florence, 15th century. Fig 13: Border of a carpet on a picture of [by?] Mantegna in S. Zeno at Verona, late 15th century. Fig 14: Border from an embroidered chasuble, 14th century (German work). Figs 15 and 16: Patterns of stuffs from the 14th century, of French origin. Fig 17: Gilt copper-engraving from the cross-relics-table in the catholic parish-church at Mettlach. Figs 18-20: Enamelled decorations on the shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral, early 13th century. Fig 21: Enamelled border in the Musée de Cluny, early 13th century'. Plate 42 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]