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 124
usand years. We have seen that all varieties, however individual in character, are intimately con- nected with those which preceded them; an advantage once gained was not allowed to be lost ; and the remarkable transition from the Byzantine to the Saracenic, so totally different in spirit and in… … Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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