A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Decorative Ironwork

Twelfth Through Eighteenth Centuries

Otto Hoever

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486138305
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Graphic Design

Although the most conspicuous productions of smithcraft are rarely the outcome of the ironworker's own designs, nevertheless, ironwork translates into material of many artistic conceptions, and reflects the art of various style-epochs and countries. This work, originally published in 1927 as An Encyclopedia of Ironwork, includes more than 450 black-and-white photographs, all royalty-free, and show ironwork masterpieces from all over Europe — doors, gates, railings, grilles, door knockers, locks, lanterns, candelabra, firedogs, chandeliers, and much more. There are beautiful examples from Notre Dame; Chichester Cathedral; Barcelona Cathedral; Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark; Versailles; and scores of other sites.

THE PLATES

1. France, 12th century—Screen with Door (Detail). The Cathedral, Puy

2. Spain, 12th century—Door Furniture in Marcevols Abbey

3. Spain, 13th century—Screen with Door. The Cathedral, Palencia

4. France, 13th century—Grille Panels from Ourscamp Abbey Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen

5. France, 13th century—Detail of Grille Panel from Ourscamp Abbey

6. France 13th century—Grille Panel. Musée Le Secq des Tournelles. Rouen

7. France, 13th century—Decorations in Wrought Iron. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Paris

8. France. 13th century—1) and 3) Railings: 2) Mounting of a Door

9. France, second half of the 13th century—Oak Coffer, with Wrought Iron Scrollwork Victoria and Albert Museum, London

10. Liege, 13th century—Door, formerly St. Paul’s Church, now Archaeological Museum

11. France, 13th century—Door Mountings. 1) Notre Dame, Paris; 2) Saint Gilles Cathedral

12. France, 13th century—Door Mounting on the West Front of the Paris Cathedral

13. Germany, first half of the 14th century—Doors. The Cathedral, Erfurt

14. France and Italy, 13th and 14th centuries—Screens

15. Germany and Fra...

Table of contents

• DOVER BOOKS ON ANTIQUES, COLLECTING
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• THE PLATES