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 161
hing of the Renaissance, Elizabethan, and LouisQuatorze combined. The great medium of the Louis Quatorze (1643-1715) wasgilt stucco-work, which, for a while, seems to have almost wholly- superseded decorative painting; and this absence of colour in theprincipal decorations of the period seems to… … THE LOUIS QUATORZE. 105 varieties, we, for the first time, occasionally find symmetry system-atically avoided. This feature was gradually more and moreelaborated, till it became essential in the Louis Quinze, and ulti-mately led to that debased yet popular style, the Kococo, in whichsymmetry,…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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