Grammar Of Ornament PDF Book 112 Royalty-Free Images CD

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The Grammar Of Ornament

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112 Royalty-free, Super-high-resolution, Color Images

Owen Jones (1809 ~ 1874) was a British architect, decorative artist, author and educator. Through his efforts to publish his findings on the historic use of color in decoration, he also became one of the pioneers of chromolithography.

His masterwork, The Grammar Of Ornament, soon became one of the defining works in ornamentation and decorative arts, since it was first published in 1856.

The 1910 edition of The Grammar Of Ornament, illustrates 112 original color plates with various style of ornament drawn from 19 different cultures, is an essential picture book offering the supreme expression of Victorian taste in historical decoration, and serves as a definitive source of reference and inspiration for designers of wallpaper, furniture, architectural decoration, and fabric worldwide.

This superb digital product is coming with the raw scanned, royalty-free images of all 112 color plates from the book, so you could directly access these marvelous artwork for your own designs by using Photoshop, etc. The images are in JPEG2000 format and at super-high resolution 2500 X 3800.

Please note: This SUPERB PDF Reprint is a top-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1910. The PDF file size is as large as 117 MB due to each page is a very high-resolution facsimile image. The images are archived as a 301 MB zip file.

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Contents Covered

General principles
Ornament of savage tribes
Egyptian ornament
Assyrian and Persian ornament
Greek ornament
Pompeian ornament
Roman ornament
Byzantine ornament
Arabian ornament
Turkish ornament
Moresque ornament
Persian ornament
Indian ornament
Hindoo ornament
Chinese ornament
Celtic ornament
Mediæval ornament
Renaissance ornament
Elizabethan ornament
Italian ornament
Leaves and flowers from nature

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