Speltz, Alexander / Styles of ornament: exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text.
The Russian ornament, pp. -197
Initial from a Gospel in the Rumjantzow - Museum in Moscow (Dolmetsch). SPELTZ, Styles of Ornament. I3 THE RUSSIAN ORNAMENT. artaric influence — which dates chiefly from 1237 to 1480, when the Tartars were in power — may be regarded beyond any doubt as the chief cause why the pure Byzantian style originally established in Russia came to be changed later on into the specific Russian Ornament. Into Russia, as into every other country where they appeared, the Christians brought with them a new style of art, which developed itself afterwards in accordance with the national character of the people. The commencement of Russian Art may be said to date from the end of the j0th century under the reign of Vladimir the Great. In the latter part of the Middle Ages and towards the beginning of the Modern period, Italian artists were invited in great numbers into the country and were engaged in the construction of numerous monumental buildings. The influence of Oriental Art, however, was already so very great, that even Italian Art was not powerful enough to entirely eliminate it from the country. Wooden architecture plays a great part in Russian ornament. There exist at present in Russia some Old-Slavonian manuscripts dating from the 1oth century. Plate 108. (After E. Violet le Due, l'Art Russe.) Fig. I. Arch of a portal in the church of St. Dimitri, Wiadimir. 2. Russian capital. 3. Cupola of the Wasili Blajennoi Church in Moscow. 4. Russian column. 5. Stucco ornament. Plate 109. (After Gagarin, Russisehe Ornamente). Fig. I. From St. George's church in Jurjeff-Polsky, Government of Vladimir; dates from i ~ th century. 2. Wood carving on an Icon, 16th century. 3. Relief decoration of a stone wall in the church of St. George, JurjeffPolsky, Government of Vladimir. ,, 4. From a silver mounting of a picture of Christ in Antschishat, Tiflis, 14th century. 5, and 6. From St. George's Church in Jurjeff-Polsky, 13 th century.
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