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Identifier: gri_c00033125008700094 (find matches)
Title: The grammar of ornament
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877 Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Decoration and ornament Decorative arts
Publisher: London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ter his return toPerugia from Eome; and manifests how deeply he musthave drunk at the classic fountain of antique Art. It is,without doubt, the first complete reproduction of the grotesques of the ancients, and is singularly interest-ing, not only as establishing the claim of Pietro to beregarded as the first great and accurate reviver of thisgraceful style of decoration, but as having been the trial-piece on which so many prentice hands wereexercised, whose efforts subsequently carried it to thehighest perfection. The principal scholars of Perugino, whose laboursthere is little doubt materially aided in the elaborationof these graceful fancies, were Eaffaelle, then aged six-teen or seventeen ; Francesco Ubertini, better known asBacchiacca; and Pinturicchio. And it is curious totrace the influence of the success of this their first Arabesque desiffned by Baccio Pmteiii for the church attempt upon the after career of eacli of the three. It ot Sant Agostmo, Home. 00 Itatxxaxax , fV v=§
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Arabesque designed by Baccio Phitelli for the Church of Sant Ag-ostino, Eome. 141 ITALIAN ORNAMENT.

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