Inside Out Library · Explore

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 20

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 20
that symmetry which we are speaking of. The arm is not symmetrical, because it is balanced by a similar member on the other side; but take the head, which has not this plurality to disturb its symmetry, and we find a perfect contrast of the two parts. I believe this to be true of all natural groups… … CHAPTER III. The whole grammar of ornament consists in contrast, repetition, and series. A perfect contrast of form may be defined as the two sides of a solid or section of the solid, generated by the revolution of an outline aromid a given axis ; as, for instance, a sphere is the solid generated…

Decoration and ornament · Architecture

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures 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

More like this