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 129
of cartouchesor scrolled shield-work, whichbecame so very prominent inthe sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies. One of the oldestexamples I can refer to is theshield containing the Lion ofSt. Mark, on the Watergate ofthe Ducal Palace at Venice, per-haps the work of Briosco, in themiddle of the… … THE RENAISSANCE OR REVIVAL. 91 with heraldry—many of its forms are palpably mere armorial shields,which became very common in architectural decoration of a laterperiod, and the fact of such forms being afterwards used as mereelements of ornament does not in any way invalidate such an origin. There…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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