Bases of Criticism and Outlines of the Arts of Applied Design |
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applied art Applied decorations applied design architectural artistic background BASES OF CRITICISM Basse-taille beauty brick Byzantine carved cement Century B.C. CERAMIC GLAZES CERAMICS cont'd champlevé character cloisonné cloth coarse coats colored glass combination Common clays complete composition concrete consisting cont'd DECORATION cont'd cont'd TECHNIQUES create crude decorative effect developed earthenware employed enamels esthetic appeal estry Etruscan examples finished firing forms function geometrical glazes gold grain Greek grisaille heat imitation incized ivory lacquer leather loom machine marquetry metal methods modeled mold mosaics motifs natural numerous object ornamental patterns perfected period pictorial pieces pile pile weave plaster porcelain pot-metal glass practical produced Ravenna Renaissance shape Silica silver simple smooth solid stained glass stone structural surface tapestries terra cotta tesserae TEXTILES cont'd texture threads tones types of decorative usually various vases viscous glass VIth century VITREOUS ARTS wall wares warps weaves wefts wood woven XIIIth centuries XIIth and XIIIth