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 87
63 BYZANTINE OllNAMENT. which is the element of the trefoil and quatre-foil, so common in Byzantine and Gothic art, — the first having reference to the Trinity, the second to the four Evangelists, as the testimony of Christ, and to the cross ; at the extremities of which we often find four circles,… … of the Evangelists are fre- oid Leather case, quently applied as the principal decoration of a facade, and are constantly met with under the arches of doorways, on either side of the vesica, which is found circumscribing the image of Christ, with his right hand raised in the attitude of benediction.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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