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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 135

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93 THE RENAISSANCE. still so great a favourite with the French, that French and Renaissance are nearly identical terms. This style is, however, … Carved Door Panel from the Chateau d'Anet, now at of the Chateau d'Anet, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. near Dreux, in France (about 1548), and other buildings of that time, and it is indeed sometimes designated the Henry II. style* The mixture of various elements is one of the essentials of this…

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