The Art of Colour Decoration

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Excerpt from The Art of Colour Decoration: Being an Explanation of the Purposes to Be Kept in View and the Means of Attaining Them At times colour has been clearly subordinate to structural effect at other times the walls themselves have been but fields for colour, pages on which colour was to write the story or appeal to the imagination. Nor are these two variations of relationship limited by epochs of time only for we find at many periods when archi tecture had all the qualities and power of supremacy, occasional abdications of that supremacy in favour of the more facile art. As examples of this we may take two of world-wide fame: Giotto's Chapel at Padua and Michael Angelo's Sistine Chapel, in both of which the entire absence of structural architecture is conspicuous. It is, however, desirable to remember that in both instances the field was occupied by men of supreme genius - men who in¿uenced all who came after them - and that the interest Of their work is now neither architectural nor strictly decorative, but is concentrated in the artistic power expressed in every part of the whole. Decorative intention is not absent in either, but neither can be judged by a decorative standard alone. Both are really great landmarks in the History of European Art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.