Increasing prosperity fueled demand for houses that were more comfortable and more elegant, while patrons grew more sophisticated, architects better esteemed, and craftsmen capable of realizing ever more ambitious designs.
details are of Italian inspiration, but they are combined and executed in a Dutch manner
By the turn of the twentieth century, a new stylistic vocabulary—with distinct regional characteristics—had been firmly established. Whether realistic or abstract, exuberant or restrained, curvilinear or geometric, there was a consistency in the purposeful rejection of outmoded tastes and exploration of new design influences.
motifs, while thoroughly integrated, often were treated in a linear or geometric manner
Now, only older women carry on the practice of weaving baskets in the traditional manner
508 Magdalene Odundo’s vessels blend multiple associations and meanings in a manner
and that Böcklin delivered the picture to his patron with a note describing the manner
The Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room is among the most elaborate and best-preserved interiors from late-19th-century New York City.
Employing the historicizing manner that was central to the Aesthetic movement, Schastey
Year One
A magnificent black stone statue carved in the traditional Egyptian manner and likely
The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States.
stereograph, commonly known as a stereo view, is a double photograph presented in such a manner
Since only the menuisier was obliged to sign his work, the names of the other craftsmen are, unfortunately, rarely known.
ornaments such as interlaced bands, urns, or acanthus leaves in the Neoclassical manner
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
John Gardner Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (1837), which
