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 74
he free introduction of monsters and animals is likewise a characteristic of Greek and Roman ornament, — as the sphinx, the triton, the griffin, and others: they occur, however, much more abundantly in the Roman. The most splendid Roman ornamental specimens are those which have been dug up among… … Chimei-a.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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