Decorative Arts
Like the fine arts, the decorative arts embody beauty, but they also serve practical purposes. The disciplines include furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, as well as the textile arts and jewelry. As with fine arts and architecture, style is highly visible in some of these disciplines—notably furniture and silver—as artists and patrons have searched for centuries for the manner of visual expression that best suits their vision of themselves and their era.
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