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This magnificently illustrated volume showcases elegant examples of ironwork designs by five centuries of Italian masters. Spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the collection encompasses both simple and elaborate ornaments for doors, windows, gates, balcony and staircase railings, and other architectural features. A remarkable variety of motifs are depicted--from gracefully executed florals and foliated elements, to exquisite swirls and curls, and striking portrayals of mythical beasts.
A dazzling treasury of ornamental ironwork, this archive of royalty-free motifs will delight lovers of antiques, commercial artists, and anyone intrigued by decorative flourishes from the past.
A dazzling treasury of ornamental ironwork, this archive of royalty-free motifs will delight lovers of antiques, commercial artists, and anyone intrigued by decorative flourishes from the past.
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Masterpieces of Italian Decorative Ironwork - Augusto Pedrini
[Frontispiece]Mausoleum gate with central cross design. Miasino, Novara. 1742.
Masterpieces of Italian Decorative Ironwork
Augusto Pedrini
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2005, is a selection of 172 illustrations on 122 plates from the work originally published as II ferro battuto sbalzato e cesellato nell’arte italiana dal secolo undicesmilo al secolo dicioltesimo by U. Hoepli, Milan, 1929. A Publisher’s Note has been specially prepared for this edition. The captions have been translated from the original Italian in an abridged form.
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 Permissions Department, 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.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pedrini, Augusto.
[Ferro battuto sbalzato e cesellato nell’arte italiana dal secolo undicesmilo al secolo dicioltesimo. English. Selections]
Masterpieces of Italian decorative ironwork / Augusto Pedrini ; 172 illustrations, selected by Carol Belanger Grafton.
p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series)
Originally published: Milano : U. Hoepli, 1929.
9780486149912
1. Architectural ironwork—Italy—Pictorial works. I.
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