Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 100
from the Conquest of that city by the Arabs to the Expulsion of the Moors, by M. Pasqual de Gayangos. Folio. London, 1842.Hessemer.—Saracenic and Old Italian Building Decorations. Arabische und Alt-Italienische Bau-verzierungen. 120 chromo-lithographs.2nd edition, folio. Berlin, 1853.Bisson,… … Cairo. We will now consider the second medieval style—the Saracenic.Its principles are soon stated: the Arabs had not art or artists oftheir own; they came from their deserts, with no more taste orknowledge of such matters than a mere love of finery could givethem ; they could not but be struck by…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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