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umn.31951d004390771	Racinet, A. 1825-1893.	Polychromatic ornament : one hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediaeval art, and including the Renaissance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / the subjects selected and arranged, in historical order and in a form suitable for practical use, by A. Racinet ; with explanatory text and a general introduction, translated from the original French	1873		.txt	text/plain	47644	5073	77	from this style that we may expect the highest type of ornament; since, as the author of the " Grammaire des Arts du Dessin" says again, " this style is the impress of the human mind on nature." painting suggested charming decorations to the skilful artists who adorned modern art, especially that noble productions are the work of that hardy race which decided the superiority of Western Art. From the close of the thirteenth century the ancient styles, some traces of which had lingered They do in fact belong to one and the same style, as the art of ornamentation in Japan was formed under The carpet represented in the accompanying plate belongs to the finest period of Persian art, the sixteenth century of our era. These ornaments, which are interesting both from an historical and artistic point of view, are all — with the exception of the flower occupying the centre of the upper part of the plate — taken from a very curious manuscript in the	./cache/umn.31951d004390771.pdf	./txt/umn.31951d004390771.txt