Sentence examples for book decorations from inspiring English sources

On La Compañía's front facade (1698), all the surfaces except for the columns were densely decorated with flat floral designs and half-figure Atlantean supports that are derived primarily from European woodblock book decorations.

The innovations of these early Irish and English scribes and artists left a lasting imprint on the subsequent development of book decoration throughout Europe.

A new era of book decoration was foreshadowed by Rossetti's illustration for the Moxon edition of the Poems (1857) of Tennyson.

The Mishneh Torah is a justly celebrated work that attests to the refined aesthetic sensibility of members of Italy's Jewish community as well as to the opulence of North Italian book decoration in the 15th century".

C. 1480 Bourges, France c. 1533 Paris, France Geoffroy Tory, (born c. 1480, Bourges, Fr. died c. 1533, Paris) publisher, printer, author, orthographic reformer, and prolific engraver who was mainly responsible for the French Renaissance style of book decoration and who played a leading part in popularizing in France the roman letter as against the prevailing Gothic.

No longer in print but still possible to find is Cowles's 1985 book, "Flower Decorations: A New Approach to Flower Arranging".

The book Flower Decoration in the House (1907) greatly influenced the development of 20th-century floral decoration as an art.

In 1901, workers began building the Mount, according to the principles outlined by Wharton in her first book, "The Decoration of Houses," which was published in 1897.

In 1897 he and Wharton wrote a book, "The Decoration of Houses," published by Charles Scribner's Sons, advocating simpler, more refined designs.

St Augustine Academy, Maidstone, Kent: create a room that's all about astronomy and includes a telescope, dome reflex glazing, a solar system model and space books and decorations.

She designed it herself, in accord with the simple aesthetic — simple for the time, anyway — she had championed in her first book, "The Decoration of Houses," written with Ogden Codman Jr.