PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II THE VALUE OF COLOUR AS APPLIED TO ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER III THE DECORATIVE COLOURING OF INTERIORS
CHAPTER IV THE COLOURING OF EXTERIORS
CHAPTER V ON THE USE AND MODIFICATION OF COLOUR IN DECORATION
CHAPTER VI ITALIAN DECORATION AND ORNAMENT
CHAPTER VII COLOURED ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE
CHAPTER VIII COLOUR DECORATION IN GERMANY
CHAPTER IX COLOUR DECORATION IN ENGLAND
INDEX
COLOUR DECORATION OF
ARCHITECTURE
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Plate I.—Sketch Design for a Wall Decoration in Fresco.
Fame Rewarding the Arts and Sciences.
COLOUR DECORATION OF
ARCHITECTURE
TREATING ON COLOUR AND DECORATION OF THE INTERIORS
AND EXTERIORS OF BUILDINGS. WITH
HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE ART AND
PRACTICE OF COLOUR DECORATION
IN ITALY, FRANCE, GERMANY
AND ENGLAND. FOR THE
USE OF DECORATORS
AND STUDENTS
BY
JAMES WARD
AUTHOR OF “PRINCIPLES OF ORNAMENT,” “HISTORIC ORNAMENT,” “COLOUR HARMONY
AND CONTRAST,” “PROGRESSIVE DESIGN,” “FRESCO PAINTING,” ETC.
WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND
TWENTY-TWO IN HALF-TONE
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE
1914
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.