Art in Ornament and DressScribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1877 - 274 oldal |
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adorned alternation appearance arrangement artist basques beauty becomes BENVENUTO CELLINI Bernardin de Saint-Pierre blonde blue bodice bonnet brilliant called champlevé character charming cloisonné coat collar complementary colours complexion conceal consonance contrast costume cross-band decoration delicacy delicate diamonds display effect elegance enamel Eugène Delacroix example expression face fancy fashion feathers flounce flowers folds frock coat gems give gloves gold grace green grisaille guipure hair harmony head head-dress height horizontal human figure idea imitation invented jewel jewellery lace light linen Louis XIV material means Molière nature objects ornament painting pearl placed plaited point d'Alençon produced proportions radiating relief render repetition réseau ribbon richness round ruby shade shape silk skirt sleeves soften sometimes striking style suitable surface symmetry taffeta taste thread tints tion Titian toilet triglyphs trimmings tunic variety velvet violet VITRUVIAN SCROLL wear width woman woman's dress women worn yellow
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144. oldal - ... But since a secret relationship exists between the moral temperament and the physical colours of the eyes, hair, and complexion, an involuntary harmony is at once established between the studied choice dictated by vanity, and that which results from the usual or a passing state of mind. The colour most becoming to a woman's beauty is generally that which is an indication of her character. In the selection of materials, without reference to colour, I imagine that a prudent, intelligent young woman...
223. oldal - C'est à moi son beau col qui penche Quand elle dort dans son boudoir, Et sa basquina sur sa hanche, Son bras dans sa mitaine blanche, Son pied dans son brodequin noir! Vrai Dieu ! lorsque son œil pétille Sous la frange de ses réseaux, Rien que pour toucher sa mantille, De par tous les saints de Castille, On se ferait rompre les os.
69. oldal - Black suits a fair complexion : it became Briseis ; she was dressed in black when she was carried off. White suits dark people ; white, Andromeda, set off your charms, and 'twas white that you were wearing when you set foot on the isle of Seriphos.
100. oldal - Straight roots would no longer be suitable ; but the hair should be brought down on the temples, with a slight wave to make it puff out, or bands taken off horizontally, to give as much width as possible to the forehead.
101. oldal - A head with a receding forehead and face requires a style in which the hair is brought forward on the head, and which, by diminishing the curve of the profile, would make the features recede.
156. oldal - THE ARM BEING the chief instrument of gesture," says M. Charles Diane, "always attracts notice. Nothing is more expressive, more individual; and a woman describing a dress would never omit to mention the sleeves. . . . Artists have always been careful to give their female figures beautiful arms, well covered with flesh, because weak ; and above all, thin arms denote bad health and an enfeebled race. Raphael in his frescoes, Ingres in his pictures, have delineated powerful arms, attached to the shoulders...
72. oldal - Pure yellow or deep red would ill suit chesnut hair, even if dark; but half-tints, such as pale yellow, maize, deep yellow, turquoise blue, and navy blue would harmonize well with the neutral character of these natural colours. Light chesnut admits of the colours suitable to fair hair, but with a little less decidedness in the tint. As to those who have ash-coloured hair, and skin in keeping with it, eyes blue as the sea, or sea-green, their delicate and extreme softness calls for half-warm tints,...
205. oldal - ... trellis of diamonds of different sizes. The pieces where the needle or bobbin has repassed to thicken them constitute the mat. or heavy embroidery. Thus in this fairy-like architecture, in which the courses of stone are, as it were, linen or silk threads, the solid masonry is represented by the toile and the mat ; the apertures half by the grille, and half by the openings called jours...
74. oldal - ... groundwork which they are to soften down or relieve ; to give stay to a delicate face by airy tresses, and to match a majestic one with wavy tufts ; to soften the harshness of features or eyes by a contrast, and sometimes by a well considered harmony ; to work all these wonders with no other means than a comb and some powders of different colours — all this is beyond doubt the essential characteristic of an art. "The hairdresser, by the look of a face, must divine at a glance the sort of ornament...
136. oldal - ... an external declaration of the principles of civil equality and liberty, inaugurated in the world by the French Revolution.