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 88
and the first and second fingers only extended, and thus symbolising the Trinity. The Roman prelate blesses in the name of the Trinity ; the Greek, in the name of Jesus Christ. Without some knowledge of these essential points, the Byzan- tine decorations are quite rmintelligible ; for their early… … Conspicuous in their foliage, also, is a peculiarly formal and sharp version, if I may so call it, of the Greek acanthus-leaf, somewhat resembling the ordinary thistle, or holly-leaf. Why the beautiful and accomplished styles of the ancients, then, were discarded for such comparatively crude…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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