ORNAMENTAL DESIGN PRINTS: From the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century

Description

With their overwhelming wealth of forms, prints of designs of historic ornaments are a source of boundless inspiration for graphic artists and designers. They also allow collectors and art historians to reliably date works and classify styles. This cornucopia of design, published here for the first time in English, contains the finest images from the famous, hitherto out-of-print, and seminal work by Rudolf Berliner.

Rudolph Berliner (1886-1967) was an art historian and a curator of fine arts at the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration and the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. He also taught museum studies at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.