Historic Ornament, Vol. 1 (of 2) / Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament
by James Ward
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Chapters (318)
- HISTORIC ORNAMENT
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
- CHAPTER II. PREHISTORIC ORNAMENT—PALÆOLITHIC PERIOD OR EARLY STONE AGE—RIVER DRIFT AND CAVE-MEN.
- CHAPTER III. NEOLITHIC STONE PERIOD.
- CHAPTER IV. THE BRONZE AGE.
- CHAPTER V. THE IRON AGE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE LAKE DWELLINGS OF SWITZERLAND AND OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.
- CHAPTER VII. EGYPTIAN ART.
- Egyptian Ornament and Industrial Art.
- CHAPTER VIII. CHALDEAN AND ASSYRIAN ART.
- CHAPTER IX. PHŒNICIAN ART.
- CHAPTER X. ART IN ANCIENT PERSIA.
- CHAPTER XI. GRECIAN PEOPLE AND MYTHOLOGY.
- CHAPTER XII. ART IN PRIMITIVE GREECE.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE GREEK AND ROMAN ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE.
- CHAPTER XIV. GREEK AND ROMAN ORNAMENT.
- CHAPTER XV. INDIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
- CHAPTER XVI. CHINESE AND JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE.
- CHAPTER XVII. EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE.
- Byzantine Architecture.
- CHAPTER XVIII. SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT.
- CHAPTER XIX. ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT.
- CHAPTER XX. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT.
- CHAPTER XXI. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT.
- Ornament of the Renaissance.
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