Victorian Sourcebook of Medieval Decoration: With 166 Full-Color Designs
By G. Audsley and W. Audsley
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Meticulously reproduced motifs from rare 1882 edition, this volume contains all the original 166 full-color designs as well as the informative introduction and notes on the original plates. Among the designs are elaborate and richly colored diaper patterns, medallions for ornamental devices, pillars and arch moldings, bands and borders, floral and foliated designs, alphabets, illuminated initials, and much more. As in Victorian England, today's artists, designers, and crafters will find these beautiful royalty-free designs ideal for visual inspiration or immediate practical use. Students, art historians, and lovers of fine design will also welcome this collection for its splendid examples of medieval artistry.
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Victorian Sourcebook of Medieval Decoration - G. Audsley
Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.
This Dover edition, first published in 1991, is an unabridged republication of Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediœval Styles, originally published by Henry Sotheran & Co., London, in 1882. The text has been typographically reset, and the notes on the plates have been moved to the end of the volume. In four cases, two adjacent plates have been combined on a single page.
DOVER PiEtorial Archive SERIES
This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501.)
However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service whether it be in a book or in any other design resource is strictly prohibited.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Audsley W (William), b. 1833.
[Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediæval styles]
Victorian sourcebook of medieval decoration / W & G. Audsley
p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series)
Reprint. Originally published: Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediaeval styles. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1882.
9780486155531
1. Color decoration and ornament. 2. Decoration and ornament, Medieval. 3. Decoration and ornament, Architectural. I. Audsley, George Ashdown, 1838–1925. II. Title. III. Series.
NK1548.A84 1991
729’.4—dc20
91-16175 CIP
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
POLYCHROMATIC - DECORATION
Preface.
Introduction.
Practical Hints.
Notes on the Plates
DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE SERIES
POLYCHROMATIC
DECORATION
AS APPLIED TO BUILDINGS
IN THE
MEDIEVAL STYLES.
THIRTY-SIX PLATES IN COLOURS AND GOLD,
WITH GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTIVE LETTERPRESS.
BY
W. & G. AUDSLEY,
FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS,
AND AUTHORS OF SEVERAL WORKS ON ART.
LONDON:
HENRY SOTHERAN & CO.,
136, STRAND; 36, PICCADILLY; 77 & 78, QUEEN STREET, CITY.
MANCHESTER: 49, CROSS STREET.
1882.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
[Original title page]
Preface.
IT IS A SOMEWHAT remarkable fact that, amongst the numerous works which have of late years issued from the press, not one has professed to be a systematic Treatise devoted to the Polychromatic Decoration of Ecclesiastical and Domestic Buildings in the mediæval styles. Books have certainly been published which contain fragmentary illustrations of mediaeval ornamentation, and some others have appeared in foreign countries, devoted to the mono-graphical representation of the polychromatic decoration of modern or restored ancient buildings. Valuable as such books are, they scarcely meet the demands of the present time, in which a practical and suggestive guide is much wanted by all who have anything to do with this branch of decorative art.
Such a want the present Work attempts in some degree to supply; and although it is not intended for those who are already skilled and learned in the subject, yet to them it may occasionally prove useful, by supplying hints. To students and younger members of the architectural profession, to decorative artists, and practical painters generally, it will form a valuable and suggestive book of reference, containing designs based upon ancient authorities for the characteristic ornamentation of the various portions of ecclesiastical and domestic buildings erected in the several styles of Gothic architecture.
To those amateurs who amuse themselves by decorating their own dwellings, furniture, etc., or who lend practical help in beautifying their village or country churches, this Work will be of great benefit, for it contains more hints and suggestive designs, systemised for their use, than can be found in all the works already published on the polychromatic decoration of mediaeval buildings.
The Plates are most carefully and accurately drawn, and as great a variety of features introduced as is possible in each one; while the accompanying letterpress describes the use and various artistic combinations of the designs; and supplies hints for their adoption and arrangement on the walls and other parts of buildings.
W & G. AUDSLEY.
Liverpool, October, 1881.
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Plate XX.
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