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 87
uch comparatively crude elements ofornament, needs no other explanation than the simple statementthat they were Pagan. Paganism, however, consisted solely in forms, not in colours ;and therefore, in respect of colour, there never was any restric-tion in Byzantine art. The forms of the ancients,… … lis), the emblem of the Virgin and of purity,is as common in Christian decoration as thelotus is in that of Egypt. It is the symbolwhich was eventually elaborated into the mostcharacteristic foliage of Byzantine and Ko-manesque art, still well illustrated in workof the twelfth and thirteenth…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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