Decorative art: Quick Facts

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Victorian fireplace tile featuring an ornate symmetrical design with a central rosette, blue floral clusters, and intricate beige scrollwork on a cream background.

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Key People

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Leo Castelli

American art dealer

Etching of a design for a table from his book, Ornamens Inventory, by Jean Berain the Elder, c. 1670–1700.

Jean Berain, the Elder

French designer and painter

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Gerhard Dagly

Flemish artist

Spratling, William

William Spratling

American architect

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William Morris

British artist and author

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Charles Locke Eastlake

British author

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Theophilus

German writer and artist

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Wilhelm von Bode

German art critic

Torii gate at entrance to a Shinto shrine on Mount Hakone, east-central Honshu, Japan. (gateways)

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