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The flowery realm of decorations,
The chann of landscape, of architecnlrc,
And all the effect of scenery rest
Solely on the law of perspective.
-Franz Bohle, 'I7leater-CatechismusJ 'I7leater-CatechismusJ odeI' humoristische Erkliirung versclliedener
vorziiglich im Biihnenleben fiblieher Fremdworter (Mtulich), (Mtulich),
p. p.74 74
I I venerate the Beautiful, the Good, and all things great;
Beautiful nature, on which great great art rests-
How it enchants the ear and charms the eye! eye!
I love spring in blossom: women and roses.
-eorifhsion d'un lion devol'll vieux (Baron Haussmann, 1888)
The breathless capitals
Opened themselves to the cannon.
-Pierre Dupont, Le Chant des etudiants ( (paris, 1849)
paris, 1849)
The characteristic and, properly speaking, sole decoration of the Biederrneier
room "was "was afforded by the curtains, which-extremely refined and compounded
preferably from several fabrics of different colors-were fumished by the upholsterer.
For nearly a whole century afterward, interior decoration amounts, amounts, in
theory, to providing instructions to upholsterers for the tasteful tasteful arrangement of
draperies:' Max von Boehu, Die Mode im XIX. Jahrhundert, vol. 2 (Munich,
1907), 1907), p. p. 130. 130. This is something like the interior's perspective on the window.
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Perspectival character of the crinoline, with its manifold flounces. At least five to
six petticoats were worn underneath. (E1,2]
Peep-show rhetoric, perspectival figures of speech: !.!.Incidentally, t.he figure of
greatest effect, employed by all French orators from their podiums and trihunes,
sounds pretty much like this: 'There was in the Middle Ages a book which concen-