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I am not at all enamored, as I have told you, with this plan of representation; as little do I relish any bandings or associations for procuring it. But if the question was to be put to you and me, Universal popular representation, or none at all for us and ours, we should find ourselves in a very awkward position. I do not like this kind of dilemmas, especially when they are practical.
It is true that towards the end of the fourteenth century, makers of ornamental furniture began to copy marble mosaic work, by making similar patterns of different woods, and subsequently this branch of industrial art developed from such modest beginnings as the simple pattern of a star, or bandings in different kinds of wood in the panel of a door, to elaborate picture-making, in which landscapes, views of churches, houses and picturesque ruins were copied, figures and animals being also introduced.
Magical indeed the charm of this land, as of a land veritably haunted by gods: so lovely the spectral delicacy of its colours so lovely the forms of its hills blending with the forms of its clouds so lovely, above all, those long trailings and bandings of mists which make its altitudes appear to hang in air.
The "mounting" of articles of furniture with metal enrichments doubtless originated in the iron corner pieces and hinge plates, which were used to strengthen the old chests, of which mention has been already made, and as artificers began to render their productions decorative as well as useful, what more natural progress than that the iron corners, bandings, or fastenings, should be of ornamental forged or engraved iron.
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