Medieval Ornament: 950 Illustrations

212 Pages·2012·145.92 MB·English

by  Karl Alexander von Heideloff

DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE
SERIES
VICTORIAN PATTERNS AND DESIGNS IN FULL COLOR, G.A. and M.A.
Audsley. (25756-8) PLANTS AND FLOWERS: 1,761 ILLUSTRATIONS
FOR ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS, Alan E. Bessette and William K.
Chapman (eds.). (26957-4) ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS FROM
ARCHITECTURAL SHEET METAL: THE COMPLETE BROSCHART &
BRAUN CATALOG, CA. 1900, Jacob Broschart & Wm. A. Braun. (27039-4)
BIRD STENCIL DESIGNS, Robert G. Bush. (26704-0)
LIVELY ADVERTISING CUTS OF THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES: 1,102
ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANIMALS, FOOD AND DINING, CHILDREN,
ETC., Leslie Cabarga and Marcie McKinnon (eds.). (26418-1) TREASURY
OF CHINESE DESIGN MOTIFS, Joseph D’Addetta. (24167-X)
CHINESE LATTICE DESIGNS, Daniel Sheets Dye. (23096-1)
DESIGNS FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN MEXICO, Jorge Enciso. (22794-4)
OLD-TIME CIRCUS CUTS: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE, Charles Philip Fox
(ed.). (23653-6) DECORATIVE FRAMES AND BORDERS, Edmund V
Gillon, Jr. (ed.). (22928-9)
ART NOUVEAU FRAMES AND BORDERS, Carol Belanger Grafton. (24513-
6)
BANNERS, RIBBONS AND SCROLLS, Carol Belanger Grafton. (24443-1)
400 FLORAL MOTIFS FOR DESIGNERS, NEEDLEWORKERS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, William Briggs and Co., Ltd., Carol Belanger Grafton
(ed.). (25162-4) HUMOROUS VICTORIAN SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS,
Carol Belanger Grafton. (24896-8)
1,001 FLORAL MOTIFS AND ORNAMENTS FOR ARTISTS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, Carol Belanger Grafton. (25352-X) SILHOUETTES: A
PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF VARIED ILLUSTRATIONS, Carol Belanger
Grafton (ed.). (23781-8) TREASURY OF ANIMAL ILLUSTRATIONS:
FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.).
(25805-X) TREASURY OF ILLUMINATED BORDERS IN FULL COLOR,
Carol Belanger Grafton. (25699-5) TREASURY OF JAPANESE DESIGNS
AND MOTIFS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN, Carol Belanger Grafton
(ed.). (24435-0) VICTORIAN COLOR VIGNETTES AND
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN: 344 ANTIQUE
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, PRINTED ONE SIDE ONLY, Carol Belanger
Grafton (ed.). (24477-6) SCOTTISH TARTANS IN FULL COLOR, James
Grant. (27046-7)
HISTORIC ORNAMENT, C.B. Griesbach. (23215-8)
ANIMALS: 1,419 COPYRIGHT-FREE ILLUSTRATIONS OF MAMMALS,
BIRDS, FISH, INSECTS, ETC., Jim Harter (ed.). (23766-4)
TRANSPORTATION: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE FROM 19TH-CENTURY
SOURCES, Jim Harter. (24499-7) WOMEN: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE
FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES, Jim Harter. (23703-6)
HANDBOOK OF DESIGNS AND DEVICES, Clarence P. Hornung. (20125-
2)
VINTAGE SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHILDREN : 795 CUTS FROM THE
TEENS AND TWENTIES, Judy M. Johnson (ed.). (26351-7) SYMBOLS,
SIGNS AND SIGNETS, Ernst Lehner. (22241-1)
ART DECO DESIGNS AND MOTIFS, Marcia Loeb. (22826-6)
JAPANESE DESIGN MOTIFS, Matsuya Company. (22874-6)
PUEBLO DESIGNS: THE “RAIN BIRD,” H.P. Mera. (22073-7)
HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT, Franz S. Meyer. (20302-6)
WILLIAM MORRIS FULL-COLOR PATTERNS AND DESIGNS, William
Morris. (25645-6)
TRADITIONAL FLORAL DESIGNS AND MOTIFS FOR ARTISTS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, Madeleine Orban-Szontagh. (26106-9) RACINET’S
HISTORIC ORNAMENT IN FULL COLOR, Auguste Racinet. (25787-8)
ART DECO SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS AND MOTIFS: 513 ORIGINAL
DESIGNS, William Rowe. (24924-7) MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL
DEVICES: A TREASURY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUTS, William
Rowe. (25445-3) DECORATIVE ART OF THE SOUTHWESTERN
INDIANS, Dorothy S. Sides. (20139-2)
ISLAMIC DESIGNS IN COLOR, N. Simakoff. (27477-2)
CELTIC STENCIL DESIGNS, Co Spinhoven. (26427-0)
BIG BOOK OF GRAPHIC DESIGNS AND DEVICES, Typony Inc. (26261-8)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE,
Eva Wilson. (Not available in the United Kingdom or Egypt.) (25339-2)
NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, Eva Wilson. (Not available in the United Kingdom.)
(25341-4) WILDFLOWER DESIGNS AND MOTIFS FOR ARTISTS AND
CRAFTSPEOPLE, Charlene Tarbox. (27700-3) PATTERNS AND DESIGNS
FROM THE TWENTIES IN FULL COLOR, Ad. & M. P. Verneuil. (27690-
2) ART NOUVEAU PATTERNS AND STENCIL DESIGNS IN FULL
COLOR, M. P. Verneuil. (40126-X)
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Medieval Ornament
950 Illustrations
Karl Alexander von Heideloff
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by Dover Publications, Inc.
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Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1995, contains all 200 plates from the two
volumes of Carl Heideloff’s Ornamentik des Mittelalters: 200 Kupfertafeln mit
erklärendem Text, as published by C. Geiger’s Verlag, Nuremberg, n.d. (see
Publisher’s Note for further bibliographical details). The Publisher’s Note was
written specially for the present edition, as were the new English captions,
abridged translations of the original German explanatory text. The plates
reproduced here are courtesy of Cornell University Fine Arts Library.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heideloff, Carl Alexander von, 1788–1865.
[Ornamentik des Mittelalters. English. Selections]
Medieval ornament / Karl Alexander von Heideloff.
p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series) “This Dover edition, first published in
1995, contains all 200 plates from the two volumes of Carl Heideloff’s
Ornamentik des Mittelalters : 200 Kupfertafeln mit erklärendem Text, as
published by G. Geiger’s Verlag, Nuremberg, n.d.”—T.p. verso.
9780486155647
1. Decoration and ornament. Medieval. 2. Decoration and ornament,
Architectural, 3. Architecture, Medieval. I. Title. II. Series.
NA3390.H4213 1995
729’.094’0902—dc20
95-21220
CIP
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Table of Contents
DOVER PICTORIAL ARCHIVE SERIES
Title Page
Copyright Page
Publisher’s Note
Publisher’s Note
Karl (or Carl) Alexander von Heideloff (1789–1865) was principally an
architect, although his talents also included painting, sculpture and engraving.
As an architect he was chiefly involved, from at least 1816, with the restoration
of Romanesque and Gothic buildings in Germany and in the design of new
buildings in the Neo-Gothic style that was popular there throughout the
nineteenth century. (Since the 1770s the Gothic style had been considered
peculiarly, nationalistically German, and the Romantics had celebrated things
medieval as a patriotic contrast to the Italian-and French-inspired Baroque,
Rococo and Neo-Classical styles that had immediately preceded.) Heideloffs
center of operations was Nuremberg, where for some three decades he was
curator of municipal art monuments and instructor at the Polytechnic.
Among Heideloff’s numerous publications, the present collection of 200
copperplate engravings (apparently all drawn by him, although engraved by
several hands) is outstanding, but rather hard to date (all encyclopedia references
we have seen are obviously wrong if the dates engraved on the plates are to be
trusted). The source of this Dover edition is a two-volume set titled Carl
Heideloff’s Ornamentik des Mittelalters: 200 Kupfertafeln mit erklärendem Text
[Carl Heideloffs Ornament of the Middle Ages: 200 Copperplates with
Explanatory Text], published in Nuremberg by C. Geiger without a printed date.
There is no introductory text, only several pages of descriptions of the plates,
which were obviously written by someone other than Heideloff, and which read
in several places as though he were already dead (although he died ten years
later than the last date engraved on any plate).
From the numbering of the plates (which corresponds to the printed
descriptions), they were originally issued in 25 groups of eight (Heft I, Pl. 1–8,
through Heft XXV, Pl. 1–8); in the present edition, they have been renumbered
consecutively from 1 through 200. The engraved dates that appear sporadically
on the plates indicate that, with a handful of slight anomalies, the plates are
numbered in the sequence of their being engraved; they also indicate lapses of
time here and there. Plate 5 (the Dover numbers are here used) is dated 1837;