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 120
at style of the fifteenth century in this country. The natural freedom of the details occasionally displayed inthe Decorated, is now lost in a formal conventionality in the Per-pendicular ; which displays an execution of these parts much moreanalogous to German work, and the original Byzantine… … GOTHIC ORNAMENT. 83 of the leaves, and a uniform character, more analogous to sea-weedthan, ordinary leaves, in the foliage generally. The Tudor is scarcely a Gothic ; the art in it returns to whatit was in the Komanesque, and again becomes horizontal. Itsgreat features are the flat arch, the…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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