Baroque Ornament and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Baroque artwork and structure — extravagant in thought, exuberant in spirit, tricky intimately — flourished in 17th-century Europe, and during the a long time has persisted to stir us with its energy and dynamism and its temper of slightly suppressed pastime. Within the structure of St. Peter’s in Rome, St. Paul’s in London, and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice in addition to Within the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rubens, the Baroque spirit lives nowadays. Now image artists can upload Baroque aptitude to nearly any image venture with this terrific choice of royalty-unfastened motifs.
The 17th-century French artist Jacques Stella (1596–1657) embodies the Baroque sensibility. Early in his profession, Stella spent seven years in Florence, running for Medici Prince Cosimo II and playing the acquaintance and recommendation of the grasp engraver Jacques Callot. He spent any other ten years in Rome, the place he got here below the inventive affect of his loved one Nicolas Poussin. On his go back to France, championed through Cardinal Richelieu, he was court docket painter to Louis XIII, and based a profession that makes him esteemed as probably the most leading French artists of the 17th century. This e-book gifts engravings performed through Stella’s niece after drawings of Classical motifs most probably made through Stella all over his years in Italy. Those engravings, first printed in Paris in 1658, contain a powerful sourcebook of able-to-use Baroque layout, stuffed with extremely decorated particular person embellishes, ornamental motifs, and a blinding array of border components.
Included are lush florals and foliates, culmination, leaves, birds, shells, acorns, and extra—as particular person embellishes and rosettes, as repeating motifs in a frieze, and in different helpful preparations. Now this strong, affordable version makes them to be had to a large target market for handy copy in addition to for have a look at, notion, and pleasure.
Baroque artwork and structure — extravagant in thought, exuberant in spirit, tricky intimately — flourished in 17th-century Europe, and during the a long time has persisted to stir us with its energy and dynamism and its temper of slightly suppressed pastime. Within the structure of St. Peter’s in Rome, St. Paul’s in London, and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice in addition to Within the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rubens, the Baroque spirit lives nowadays. Now image artists can upload Baroque aptitude to nearly any image venture with this terrific choice of royalty-unfastened motifs.
The 17th-century French artist Jacques Stella (1596–1657) embodies the Baroque sensibility. Early in his profession, Stella spent seven years in Florence, running for Medici Prince Cosimo II and playing the acquaintance and recommendation of the grasp engraver Jacques Callot. He spent any other ten years in Rome, the place he got here below the inventive affect of his loved one Nicolas Poussin. On his go back to France, championed through Cardinal Richelieu, he was court docket painter to Louis XIII, and based a profession that makes him esteemed as probably the most leading French artists of the 17th century. This e-book gifts engravings performed through Stella’s niece after drawings of Classical motifs most probably made through Stella all over his years in Italy. Those engravings, first printed in Paris in 1658, contain a powerful sourcebook of able-to-use Baroque layout, stuffed with extremely decorated particular person embellishes, ornamental motifs, and a blinding array of border components.
Included are lush florals and foliates, culmination, leaves, birds, shells, acorns, and extra — as particular person embellishes and rosettes, as repeating motifs in a frieze, and in different helpful preparations. Now this strong, affordable version makes them to be had to a large target market for handy copy in addition to for have a look at, notion, and pleasure.