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 105
Themock inscriptions on the borders of rich robes, in early Italian pictures, are alsoderived from oriental models. The richest stuffs were from the East, and weredecorated with Arabic inscriptions; the old painters accordingly, when, from aspirit of veneration, they dressed their saints in rich… … Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. SARACENIC ORNAMENT. 75 a very complete style, and it is displayed in great magnificence inthe cathedral of Messina. The Alhambra does not exhibit that Byzantine character in itsdetails which we find in Sicily or in the Mosques of Cairo: all thepeculiar Arabian…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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