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 117
s the geometrical and pointed ele-ment elaborated to its utmost, its only peculiarities are its com-binations of details; at first the conventional and the geometricalprevailing, and afterwards these combined with the elaboration ofnatural objects in its decoration. The Byzantines never did… … P. 81. Crockets, Lincoln. GOTHIC ORNAMENT. 81 of the plants and flowers growing in the neighbourhood of thework. This is a great feature ; but still the most striking featureof all Gothic work is the wonderful elaboration of its geometrictracery—vesicas, trefoils, quatrefoils, cinquefoils, and an…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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