Colour Decoration of Architecture

The History of Art testifies, in all its great periods, to the keen delight that artists, decorators, and architects have taken in the study of colour, and its expression in cer...

It has been said that Architecture may be compared to a book, and that Sculpture and Painting are the illustrations which serve to explain the text and decorate the volume. It m...

When treating any building in colour, importance should be given obviously to the emphasising, and not to the effacement of the structural features, but when the building is def...

The colouring of the exteriors of important buildings should be, if possible, effected by the use of the constructive materials, such as stone, marble, granite and coloured terr...

Just as the aims of the painter of pictures are quite divergent from those of the decorator, so is the use of colour in the representation of natural objects and of natural phen...

From the twelfth to the end of the sixteenth century was a long period of artistic activity in Italy, when nearly every building, public and private, sacred and secular, was dec...

In France the traditional custom of colouring as applied to the exteriors of buildings was continued and maintained throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period, but it...

There was little, if any, art or architecture in Germany before the days of Charlemagne, except that which found expression in the various articles and objects of personal adorn...

The polychromatic decoration of buildings in England, like the architecture, was in a great measure a development of, or at least was strongly influenced in its inception by, It...