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 59
bone series ; and it added to them the spiral; theguilloche, or speira (plat) ; the acanthus; and, in a very simpledevelopment, the ordinary scroll, consisting of a succession ofspirals reversed alternately. It further established the practiceof carving the ornaments, instead of merely painting… … GREEK ORNAMENT. 49 The first of these two styles was magnificently displayed bythe Parthenon at Athens, 438 B.C. The second was best exhi-bited in the Ionic temples of Asia Minor; but it is also verycompletely represented in the Erechtheium ; and in a third order,the acanthus, called historically…
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