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 53
L.F.SWALLOV/. Antcfix of the Parthenon. The next great historic style we have to review is the Greek.First we must speak of the Doric, or early Greek, which com- GREEK. … GREEK ORNAMENT. 45 prises the Etruscan—evidently derived from it; and we find noless a change in the general character than in the details in thisfirst European style, when compared with the art of Egypt or ofAsia. Art becomes now for the first time purely aesthetic. It is, in fact, to the…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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