Nature in Design

Joan EVANS
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Year: 1933
Place: London
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Printer: University Press by John Johnson, Oxford
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Pages: xvi+ XLVIII plates + 118p
Condition: VG
Cover condition: G
Binding: HC cloth with original DJ.
Illustrated: extensively illustrated.

- A study of naturalism in decorative art from the Bronze Age to the Renaissance.

- CONTENTS:

PREFACE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I. THE ANCIENT WORLD:
1. NATURALISTIC DECORATION.
2. THE STONE AGE.
3. MINOAN CRETE.
4. GREECE.
5. ALEXANDRIA AND ROME.
6. EARLY CHRISTIAN NATURALISM.

II. MONASTERY AND CATHEDRAL:
1. THE BENEDICTINE REVIVAL.
2. GOTHIC LEAFAGE.
3. BIRDS AND BEASTS.

III. CITY AND CASTLE:
1. THICKET AND FOREST.
2. FARM AND SHEEPFOLD.
3. THE CASTLE GARDEN.
4. THE AVIARY.
5. THE INFLUENCE OF NATURALISM.
6. THE RENAISSANCE.
7. THE AGE OF VERSAILLES.

INDEX