Period of 1000 years from Fall of Rome, A. D. 476, to Capture of Constantinople, 1453—the Crusades—Influence of Christianity—Chairs of St. Peter and Maximian at Rome, Ravenna and Venice—Edict of Leo III. prohibiting Image worship—the Rise of Venice—Charlemagne and his successors—the Chair of Dagobert—Byzantine character of Furniture—Norwegian carving—Russian and Scandinavian—the Anglo – Saxons—Sir Walter Scott […]
Category: Illustrated History Of Furniture
Roman Furniture
As we are accustomed to look to Greek Art of the time of Pericles for purity of style and perfection of taste, so do we naturally expect the gradual demoralisation of art in its transfer to the great Roman Empire. From that little village on the Palatine Hill, founded some 750 years B. C., Rome […]
Greek Furniture
An early reference to Greek furniture is made by Homer, who describes coverlids of dyed wool, tapestries, carpets, and other accessories, which must therefore have formed part of the contents of a great man’s residence centuries before the period which we recognise as the "meridian" of Greek art. In the second Vase-room of the British […]
Egyptian Furniture
In the consideration of ancient Egyptian furniture we find valuable assistance in the examples carefully preserved to us, and accessible to everyone, in the British Museum, and one or two of these deserve passing notice. 1-’оьи!№ Stool. Ebonv Shat fNtrtin with Ivtjnv- РЬоЩ! Lv IlfшііЩ Си. г/ tin org totals in tin British Mitsui»’) Nothing […]
Ancient Furniture
Biblical References: Solomon’s House and Temple—Palace of Ahashuerus, Assyrian Furniture: Nimrod’s Palace—Mr, George Smith quoted, Egyptian Furniture: Specimens in the British Museum—the Workman’s Stool—various articles of Domestic Furniture—Dr, Birch quoted, Greek Furniture: The Bas Reliefs in the British Museum—the Chest of Cypselus—Laws and Customs of the Greeks—House of Alcibiades—Plutarch quoted, Roman Furniture: Position of Rome—the […]
Contents
Chapter I. Biblical References: Solomon’s House and Temple—Palace of Ahashuerus. Assyrian Furniture: Nimrod’s Palace—Mr. George Smith quoted. Egyptian Furniture: Specimens in the British Museum—The Workman’s Stool—Various articles of Domestic Furniture—Dr. Birch quoted. Greek Furniture: The Bas Reliefs in the British Museum— The Chest of Cypselus—Laws and Customs of the Greeks—House of Alcibiades—Plutarch quoted. Roman Furniture: […]