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 27
scrolls. In the zigzag we have the simplest variety of lines we canwell conceive; in the frets we have a more complicated orderof right-line series; in the varieties of the guilloche we havea similar simple series of curved lines or interfacings. In the echinus, or what is commonly called the egg… … Echinus and Astragal. Erechtheium. In the scrolls we have a regular running series or alternationof spirals, or any materials treated in that order of curve: useamong the Eomans has established an extraordinary prestigefor the acanthus, but any other materials would answer thepurpose. In the…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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