Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles: an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art; being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850 (1856)

Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877, Finden, A, F., A. F, Halliday, G, Hutton, M. M, Mateaux, G, Rees, M. R, S., H. M, Sheldrick, E, Sparling, H. M, Swallow, Jane F, Wheeler, S. A · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 101

An illustration from Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles: an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art; being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850, 1856, leaf 101 — 71 SARACENIC ORNAMENT. r … We will now consider the second medieval style — the Saracenic. Its principles are soon stated : the Arabs had not art or artists of their own; they came from their deserts, with no more taste or knowledge of such matters than a mere love of fuiery could give them ; they could not but be struck by…

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