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 131
ut what is merely auxiliary to some religious design. It wasnot so in the Cinquecento; the figures and subjects themselves area mere part—and often a secondary one—of the ornamental scheme,and the religious element comparatively disappears. We speak ofthe Eenaissance as an Epoch and as a Style, but… … Fi/rctfPow Bronze. From Door of St. Maclou, Rouen, c. 1542. The capricious style, the so-called Eenaissance of the sixteenthcentury, which was in such good repute with the jewellers,was far more conspicuous for its cartouches (its scrolled shield-work) and tracery than for the more natural or the…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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