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 143
95 THE RENAISSANCE. signification, or from any superstitious attachment to them as ancestral heirlooms. The decorators of the Renaissance were, in fact, the first artists in ornamental art since the classic periods ; they suffered no limits or restrictions but those of harmony or beauty. … In the "Ancient Parlour," Holland House.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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