Patterns & Motifs - Switzerland - line art Binding of a collection of the works of Pliny printed at Basle in 1545. This binding was made in the year Claude Garamond, the Renaissaance typographer designed his first typeface.

Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Sgraffito Frieze decoration, 16th century Sgraffito means "scratched" in Italian. It describes a decorative technique in which a base surface is covered with material of another color and then the design is "scrat

Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Panel Filling from Pilasters in Santa Maria dei Miracoli at Venice. c. 1550 A Pilaster is a rectangular, decorative column that projects beyond the surface of the wall. Generally it serves no structural purpose and

Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art From the painted Ceiling of the Cambio at Perugia, by Pietro Perugino (1450-1523) an Italian Renaissance painter and mentor to Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520). Perugino took his name from the town of Perugia whe

Patterns & Motifs - France - line art Tailpiece from a French book of the year 1550. In that year Tobacco was first cultivated in Europe and Girolamo Cardano used the measurement of parallax to establish that comets are not atmospheric phenomena.

Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Filling of the Panel of a Pilaster. Museum at Turin. From the Tomb of Gaston de Foix who died in 1512 by the artist Agostino Busti, called Bambaja, born about 1470. This piece was made in the same year Michelangelo f

Patterns & Motifs - Germany - line art Grolier Binding, Europe, 16th century.