Download or read book Historic Designs and Patterns in Color from Arabic and Italian Sources written by Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer and published by Dover. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 290 geometric and abstract-floral motifs originating in Egypt and Italy from the 5th through the 16th centuries. Reprinted from rare 19th-century chromolithographs.