Excerpt from The Art of Colour Decoration: Being an Explanation of the Purposes to Be Kept in View and the Means of Attaining Them Decorative intention is not absent in either; but neither can be judged by a decorative standard alone. Both are really great landmarks in the History of European Art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.