Capitolo 1
ARTS AND ARTS IN THE CENTURIES AVERAGES
A Description of Workmanship of Mediaeval in Very of the Departments
of Art Applicato, together with of the Account of Special Artisans in
the Primo Rinascimento
from
JULIA DE WOLF ADDISON
Author of "The Art of the Building" of Pitti, "The Art of the National one
Gallery", "Classical Myths in Art", etc.
[The illustration: Examples Of Metal Ecclesiastical Job]
INTRODUCTION
The very general one and acute interest in the revival of arts and arts
in America a signal is full of promise and pleasure to those that
you/he/she is working among the so you define arts smaller. A law to each
you turn as greatly Ruskin and Maurice you/they have influenced manual art: as
very these men and their colleagues of job have changed the aspect
of our roads and houses, our materials, textiles, utensils and
all the other useful things in which it is hit possible or to
please the aesthetical taste, without striking otherwise the value
of these articles for their destined purposes.
In this connection it is interesting to look in the past, particularly
to those centuries known as the Centuries Averages in that the manual art
bloomed in special perfection, and to see for us as
these arts were undertaken, and precisely what you/they were really these arts.
A lot of people learnedly speak of the delicious revival of the arts
and arts without having an idea very defined of the original one
trials that have been restoring to popular favour. William Morris
him, even if a great modern, and reforming spirit, felt the
the necessity of a base of historical knowledge in all the workers. "I do
you don't think", he says, "that some man but one of the tallest genius
you/he/she could make anything in these days without a lot of study of ancient art,
and also him very it would be prevented if it missed him." It is but
turning to the original sources, then to examine the progress
of mediaeval artistic arts and those sources must usually have been
you find preserved for our building in enormous volumes of dishes,
inaccessible to more readers, and rarely with some kind of information