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 15
timate use of the flat, as it is really a mere counterfeit of the round. We may call these two classes, then, the flat and the round. They have two qualities in common — shape and contrast. The shape in both is given by the outline ; the contrast, in the one by light and shade; in the other, by… … ground or of one form with another, the very elemental principle of vision is contrast, and it must, of course, be the basis of all ornamental art. Then, if this view be correct, we have but two great principles to study — shape and contrast; or, in all cases, aesthetically, an agreeable variety of…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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