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Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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owing thesimplicity of that style they exaggerated the decorative treat-ment. In accordance with their love for pomp and splendor, Ro-mans had a predilection for the Corinthian order, which theyelaborated with fine artistic feeling; the Panthenon at Rome isa good example. We find the Roman style full of dolphins and winged horsesand volutes, extravagant but beautiful in decorative imagination.The different forms of leaves are idealized in a manner so thattheir natural origin is hardly to be recognized. The acanthus,oak leaves, laurel, pineapple, vine, palm, ivy, poppy and richfloral, fruits and figure work were much employed. It is difficult to treat of the Renaissance Period withoutbearing well in mind all these characteristics of Roman art. The more that one studies the five orders recognized in clas-sical architecture the more one is impressed by the unusual beau-ties embodied in the Greek Ionic, Doric, Corinthian and theRoman Composite and Tuscan, the latter being a form very simi
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