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 43
a circular, or rather oval series, constituting the unitof the ordinary horizontal series.* And this ornament is important,as anticipating the anthemion or most popular floral ornament ofthe Greeks, so common in architecture and in the terra-cottavases. The Egyptians, however, anticipated the… … Temple at Denderah. * It is found painted on a palanquin in a picture in the Tombs of the Kings,and is not unlike a series of the hats of the God Nilus, with its seven droopinglilies. EGYPTIAN ORNAMENT. 39 But although the Egyptians, except in the case of the Isiscapital, as well shown at Denderah,…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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