Artist: GIULIO FERRARI (Italian artist, set designer & art historian, 1858 - 1934)
Title: China /the Orient - A Kaleidoscope of Chinese Ornamental Design
Medium: Original Chromolithograph, a technique using multiple lithographic stones, one for each color, and requiring very skilled workers months to produce to achieve this high quality output.
Date: 1905 [Vintage Antique, at 118 years old]
Printer: G. Ricordi & C., Milan, Italy
Publisher: Societa Italiana di Edizioni Artistiche C. Crudo & C., Torino, Italy
About the Artist: Giulio Ferrari was an Italian artist and designer who later illustrated for the Fascist magazine l'Illustrazione Fascista. Earlier in his career, he coordinated the publication of an important encyclopedic-collection outlining the history of art & design from Egyptian, Chaldean-Assyrian, Phoenician, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, to the Far East and included works in the Byzantine, Arab, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance styles. He later designed travel posters promoting Italian locales during the1930s until his death.