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German Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, (1898). Creator: Unknown

German Renaissance ceiling and wall painting, (1898). 'Fig 1: Spandril on wall compartments. Fig 2: Panel in a window flanning. Figs 3 and 4: Decorations of columns. Fig 5: Decoration on the window parapets. Figs 6 and 7: Middle and corner pieces at the friezes bordering the wall compartments. Figs 8-11: Decoration on the ceiling beams with relief wood rosettes and knos [knots?]. Fig 12: Wooden hood moulding. The whole from the golden hall at Urach [Urach Residential Palace, Bad Urach, Baden-Wurttemberg]'. The Golden Hall was designed for the wedding of Duke Eberhard im Bart to Italian princess Barbara Gonzaga of Mantua in 1474. It was lavishly redecorated in the 17th century. Plate 78 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

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Various patterns of the Renaissance, chromolithograph, published in 1897

Various patterns of the Renaissance: 1) Ceiling in the Ducal palace, Mantua, Italy; 2, 3, 6, 13) Frescos from the Vatican loggias; 4, 7, 10, 13) From the mass-book Pope Leo X; 5) Ceiling in the San Maurizio, Milan, Italy; 8) Initial M; 9) Ornament of a picture frame; 11) Ceiling in the Palazzo Doria; Genoa, Italy; 12) Venetian enamel; 14) Wood mosaic from Santa Maria in Organo, Verona, Italy (1499); 15) Ornament of an Italian leather bowl (16th century); 16) Initial P (mass-book); 17) Inlay (French, 16th century); 18) Italian book ornament; 19) Initial D (mass-book) with the five bullets of the Medici coat of arms; 20) Four quarters of Italian majolica tiles; 21) French miniature art; 22) from the prayer book of French Queen Anne of Brittany; 23) Stone ornament from ChA?teau de ChA?teaudun, France; 24) French manuscript (rand strip ornament); 25) Pilaster ornament from the Palace of Fontainebleau; 26) Stone ornaemt from the ChA?teau de Blois (1530); 27) Glazed stove tiles (German, 17th century); 28) Enameled silver plate (German, 16th century); 29) From a manuscript of Hans SchA?ufelin (1538); 30) Goblet design in enamel and gold by M. Hauch (Augsburg, Germany, 1571); 31) Glazed oven ornament by Augustin Hirschvogel (Nuremberg, Germany, 16th century); 32) Glazed clay jug (German, 1590); 33) From a German prayer book (1520). Chromolithograph, published in 1897

Isabella d'Este, Countess of Mantua, in scarlet

Isabella d'Este, Countess of Mantua, in scarlet dress with train, over blue underdress.. From a painting by Lorenzo Costa. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F. Laguillermie, from Georges Duplessis's Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris 1867

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