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 23
ORNAMENT. 19 The diaper, then, is a uniform decoration of a surface : anothergeneral decoration analogous to it is a succession of stripes, ofany character, or of colonnades. The colonnade consists ofrepetitions of continuous curves in the same direction: it is thefavourite form of decoration for…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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