This mammoth collection of ornament features 3,765 illustrations from a wide variety of periods: the Middle Ages, including Byzantine, Romanesque, and Mohammedan; Renaissance from Florence to Poland; Rococo; Colonial style; 18th century classical revival; Empire; and Biedermeier and Neoclassical from Germany. Gargoyles, capitals, jewelry, tapestries, religious objects, furniture, bridges, and much more.

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There is no larger collection of ornament in print anywhere today. This more than 600 page volume contains 3765 different illustrations on 400 full page plates! Indispensable for artists, designers, illustrators, architects, craftsmen, students, and anyone else searching for distinctive, authentic design, individual illustrations are royalty-free -- buy the book and thousands of unusual drawing are yours for the using.
Where are the ornaments from? The vanished civilizations of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, Phoenicia, Judah, India, Greece, Rome, Pompeii, the Celts, the Etruscans; from China, Japan, Arabia, India, Cambodia; from Russia, Scandinavia, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, England, Austria, Spain, and other countries.
What periods are covered? Prehistoric and primitive; antiquity; the Middle Ages, including early-Christian ornaments of the Lombards, Visigoths, Franks, and Byzantines, Romanesque ornament, Mohammedan ornament, and Gothic ornament; Renaissance ornament in Florence, Venice, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland; Rococo ornament throughout Europe; Colonial style in the United States: nineteenth century classical revival, with designs of Sheraton and Hepplewhite; Empire; and Biedermeier and Neoclassical ornament in Germany.
What design elements and objects? Gargoyles; Buddhas; dragons; capitals, bases, and shafts of columns; necklaces, rings, other jewelry; urns, vases; friezes; buildings of brick, wood, stone; tables, chairs, mirrors, chests, hardware; tapestries and cloths; statues; suits of armor, helmets, lances; mitres; fantastic animals, centaurs, cupids; religious objects; keyholes; sedan chair; bridges; coats of arms; and hundreds of others. This wide spectrum of styles will almost literally be a bottomless treasury of source material that you will use again and again, each time finding something different.

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La Librer�a Cocheras del Rey, fundada en en el a�o 1994, est� especializada en libro raro, descatalogado y curioso, as� como en libros sobre El Escorial y Madrid, literatura en general espa�ola e hispanoamericana, arte e historia universal, de Espa�a y Am�rica . Su fondo en la actualidad asciende a m�s de 50.500�t�tulos y comprende libros de todas las materias, incluso las m�s insospechadas como son magias y creencias, juegos, gastronom�a, toros, caballos, fotograf�a, cine, etc. Una faceta muy importante de la Librer�a es la de la edici�n de los libros de la Colecci�n Coliseo, tarea que realiza junto con la Sociedad de Fomento y Reconstrucci�n del Real Coliseo Carlos III, publicando t�tulos de diferentes autores pero siempre de tem�tica relacionada con El Escorial, Sierra de Guadarrama y Madrid. Otro aspecto importante de la librer�a son las l�minas que se muestran en una gran cantidad y variedad. Son reproducciones de grabados de �poca con tem�tica muy variada y que va desde el Monasterio de San Lorenzo, pasando por otros Reales Sitios (Aranjuez, El Pardo, La Granja�) hasta vistas generales de Espa�a (monumentos, provincias) y de Madrid, as� como mapas y planos antiguos y diversos objetos decorativos.

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