Dark blue-green and light greenish-yellow ornaments on deep crimson ground.
Pale greenish-blue ornaments on dark gray-blue ground, with white and gold picked out in small quantities.
Emerald green and dull orange ornaments on dark gray-green ground outlined in gold.
103. The French Renaissance takes inspiration from the Roman and Greek.
The Louis XIV is a development of the Renaissance, with a conspicuous use of gold.
The Louis XV is an elaboration along the same lines.
The Louis XVI is a simplification and a return to the classic.
The Georgian is largely Roman and Pompeiian.
104. The Adam style was taken directly from the Pompeiian, but in most cases, instead of having the Pompeiian solid color background with design lightly executed, the background is in the light color, and the design dark. To follow strictly the Pompeiian palace style would be too garish in our modern circumscribed environment.