Pugin's Gothic Ornament

Author: Augustus C. Pugin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155420
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
This classic sourcebook of decorative motifs contains 100 plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements from such architectural landmarks as New College Chapel at Oxford and Rouen Cathedral.

Fantastic Gothic and Renaissance Ornament

Author: Rudolf Berliner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486460177
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Dancing beasts of myth and legend, thick foliage that appears to live and breathe, reclining figures engulfed by symbols of fate — this spectacular compendium of 15th- and 18th-century decorative elements offers up a dizzying array of designs steeped in fantasy. A marvel of history and art! 127 black-and-white illustrations.

Gothic Ornaments

Author: Augustus Pugin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Floriated Ornament

Author: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chromolithography
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Medieval Ornament

Author: Karl Alexander von Heideloff
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155641
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
The decorative arts of the Middle Ages — richly ornate, filled with religious and mythic symbolism — were especially remarkable for the complexities of their design and their inspired craftsmanship. This fascinating volume presents nearly 1,000 illustrations of medieval ornament, consisting mostly of architectural elements from German Romanesque and Gothic churches and other buildings. Originally compiled by the German architect, painter, and engraver Karl Alexander von Heldeloff (1788–1865) as a source of study and inspiration for practicing artists and architects, this grand pictorial archive has been exactingly reproduced from a rare original edition, complete with new English translations of the German captions. The book is filled with precisely detailed engravings of doors, windows, decorative stonework, columns, pedestals, and more. It remains a richly varied resource of authentic images of medieval ornament, ideal for students of architecture and the decorative arts and essential for graphic artists and designers in search of royalty-free illustrations.

Gothic ornaments

Author: James Kellaway Colling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Gothic Architecture

Author: Raphael Brandon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486135926
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
This comprehensive study of Gothic architecture traces the distinctively beautiful elements of Gothic style through the medieval churches of Europe. Gathered from a rare two-volume Victorian classic, over 700 meticulously rendered details and illustrations display every intricate aspect of Western culture's most magnificent ecclesiastical structures, including London's Westminster Abbey Church. The only edition of these antique architectural plates in print, this splendid book is a one-of-a-kind source of authentic Gothic design. In page after fascinating page, this rich retrospective features the finest examples of medieval masonwork, woodwork, and metalwork dating back to the thirteenth century. Explore the soaring Gothic characteristics of vaulted ceilings, arched windows, flying buttresses, pointed spires, ornamental filials, and decorative panels, plus doorways, moldings, roofing, porches, door hinges, and other elaborate architectural elements. Filled with fascinating insights into the creation of Gothic-style churches and cathedrals, this sweeping survey also provides lively observations of the medieval period.

True Principles

Author: A.W. Pugin
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852446119
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture was first published in 1841, when Pugin was 29 years old. Here he presents coherent arguments for the revival of the Gothic style, the case for which he had made pictorally in his sensational book Contrasts (1836). For Pugin, the Gothic Revival was 'not a style, but a principle' and this he laid down in his most influential architectural treatise, True Principles, which introduced functionalist and rationalist as well as moral criteria into architectural discourse, much of it still resonant in the twentieth-century Modern Movement. It is reprinted together with his Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture, first printed in 1843. Much of his thought here is on architectural education, and in shuffling off the straitjacket of neoclassical architectural principles Pugin exercised a great influence in mid-Victorian architecture and the applied arts, and in a wider design reform movement. These two seminal books, presented in one volume, are introduced by the architectural historian and Pugin authority Dr Roderick O'Donnell

A.W.N. Pugin

Author: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300066562
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Pub. for Bard Grad. Ctr. for Studies in Decorative Arts, NY, Exhibition catalog.

Gothic Ornament

Author: Joseph Halfpenny
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486445100
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
These royalty-free motifs feature exquisite specimens of the sculptured ornaments from northern Europe's largest medieval cathedral. York Cathedral features soaring Gothic architecture and a vast interior, parts of which date back to the 13th century. Reproduced from a rare 18th-century volume, this compilation consists of 175 illustrations, selected from throughout the building.