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 99
e symbolic elements intro- duced by the new Christian religion, comprising a peculiar sym- bolic version also of the old Roman acanthus foliage. The wider signification of the Romanesque, however, is the earlier Christian round arch developments, in contradistinction to the Gothic, or later pointed… … Byzantine Frieze, from a Cliurch at Bonn.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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