Baroque Ornament and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Baroque art and architecture — extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail — flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism and its mood of barely suppressed passion. In the architecture of St. Peter’s in Rome, St. Paul’s in London, and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice as well as in the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rubens, the Baroque spirit lives today. Now graphic artists can add Baroque flair to almost any graphic project with this magnificent collection of royalty-free motifs.
The seventeenth-century French artist Jacques Stella (1596–1657) embodies the Baroque sensibility. Early in his career, Stella spent seven years in Florence, working for Medici Prince Cosimo II and enjoying the acquaintance and advice of the master engraver Jacques Callot. He spent another ten years in Rome, where he came under the artistic influence of his friend Nicolas Poussin. On his return to France, championed by Cardinal Richelieu, he became court painter to Louis XIII, and founded a career that makes him esteemed as one of the major French artists of the seventeenth century. This book presents engravings executed by Stella’s niece after drawings of Classical motifs probably made by Stella during his years in Italy. These engravings, first published in Paris in 1658, comprise a magnificent sourcebook of ready-to-use Baroque design, filled with highly embellished individual ornaments, decorative motifs, and a dazzling array of border elements.
Included are lush florals and foliates, fruits, leaves, birds, shells, acorns, and more—as individual ornaments and rosettes, as repeating motifs in a frieze, and in other useful arrangements. Now this sturdy, inexpensive edition makes them available to a wide audience for convenient reproduction as well as for study, inspiration, and enjoyment.
Baroque art and architecture — extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail — flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism and its mood of barely suppressed passion. In the architecture of St. Peter’s in Rome, St. Paul’s in London, and Santa Maria della Salute in Venice as well as in the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rubens, the Baroque spirit lives today. Now graphic artists can add Baroque flair to almost any graphic project with this magnificent collection of royalty-free motifs.
The seventeenth-century French artist Jacques Stella (1596–1657) embodies the Baroque sensibility. Early in his career, Stella spent seven years in Florence, working for Medici Prince Cosimo II and enjoying the acquaintance and advice of the master engraver Jacques Callot. He spent another ten years in Rome, where he came under the artistic influence of his friend Nicolas Poussin. On his return to France, championed by Cardinal Richelieu, he became court painter to Louis XIII, and founded a career that makes him esteemed as one of the major French artists of the seventeenth century. This book presents engravings executed by Stella’s niece after drawings of Classical motifs probably made by Stella during his years in Italy. These engravings, first published in Paris in 1658, comprise a magnificent sourcebook of ready-to-use Baroque design, filled with highly embellished individual ornaments, decorative motifs, and a dazzling array of border elements.
Included are lush florals and foliates, fruits, leaves, birds, shells, acorns, and more — as individual ornaments and rosettes, as repeating motifs in a frieze, and in other useful arrangements. Now this sturdy, inexpensive edition makes them available to a wide audience for convenient reproduction as well as for study, inspiration, and enjoyment.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications (June 1, 1987)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486253783
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486253787
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 0.16 x 10.91 inches

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  1. Amazon Customer

    Amazing designs and corner elements – let alone exactly what belongs on the forward square of a Yellow Boy or 1873
    One of my all time favorites for firearms engraving -I’ve run borders (see Dover Book on Borders) into corner elements with astonishing results – and what DO you put on that forward flat area of the Yellow Boy? Or behind or in front of the plate on the 1873 (or even ON the plate)? You’ll find it here — and it will be beautiful!

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  2. McKensy

    Great way to learn wood carving!
    Great book! I’ve learned allot of different way of carving!

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  3. Ladislav Pleva

    good book
    A good book needed for my work. It will inspire me to my sculptures in stone. Ornaments are fantastic. Are the basis for further work.

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  4. Jason Anderson

    While filled wit beautiful illustrations I was looking for more of the style …
    While filled wit beautiful illustrations I was looking for more of the style shown on the cover. There are several pages that have rather flat renditions of the designs. While they are still beautiful I would have liked the whole book to be more shaded, three-dimensional designs.

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  5. Mom in DC

    Five Stars
    Nice resource for artists!

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  6. KristenLehr

    Pretty…unclear.
    Great designs, it the quality if the images are pretty poor. Hard to see some of the details…okay, most of the details if you are trying to replicate the design.

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  7. Julez

    Five Stars
    great artistic ideas

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  8. Lance LePa

    Quality needed.
    While I do like the abundance of different designs, they lack in the quality I need for wood carving. Most of the designs are not usable unless I print it out, then go over the lines with a pen, and then scan them back into a usable format. A very time consuming task. I can see that they were not copied from original artwork.I would not recommend them to any professinal artisan.

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  9. Cliente Amazon

    Bellissima opera

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  10. Adrian Murariu

    Many designs of good quality . If you are in any way doing graphic arts and you need baroque than there’s no reason to not order it . No text, only graphics .

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  11. Alex

    Ich habe nach einem Buch mit schönen Referenzen gesucht und gefunden. Es ist voll von Bildern und Detailansichten. Alles recht floral und geschnörkelt gehalten, das Cover zeigt genau den Inhalt des Heftes. Der Versand ging ohne Probleme und das Produkt kam heil an.

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  12. zaza

    Les dessins reproduits sont très fins et forment une bonne base pour qui veut s’en inspirer. Un régal pour qui aime cette époque baroque.

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  13. A

    まず、デザインの大きさが半端じゃないです(笑)表紙にあるような花は直径7㎝ほどで書かれています。柱にあるようなパターンは最大10㎝幅。詳細に見れていいです。全体の雰囲気は表紙にあるデザインの類似のみで、ほかに部屋の中の暖炉付近や、鏡、紋章とかはないです。あとは唐草がかなりアップで載っているので絵を描く人にはいいかと思います。私はジュエリーに使いたかったので、大きすぎるなと思ってしまいましたが、気に入っています。

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