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 98
with the symbolic elements intro-duced by the new Christian religion, comprising a peculiar sym-bolic version also of the old Boman acanthus foliage. Thewider signification of the Romanesque, however, is the earlierChristian round arch developments, in contradistinction to theGrothic, or later… … Byzantine Frieze, from a Church at Bonn. CHAPTEE XI. SARACENIC ORNAMENT. ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. Murphy, J. C.—The Arabian Antiquities of Spain; representing in 100 engravingsthe Principal Remains of the Architecture, Sculpture, Paintings, and Mosaics ofthe Spanish Arabs, from Drawings made on the…
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