Analysis of ornament : the characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1873)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 167
THE RENAISSANCE. 115 period it would be more properly called Trecento ; if it contain, besides these, elaborate natural imitations, fes- toons, scroll-work, and occasional symmetrical arabesques, it is of the Quattrocento, the Italian Eenaissance of the fifteenth century ; and if it display a… … In the “Ancient Parlour,” Holland House. of strap-work and shield-work it is Elizabethan. In all these styles the evidence of their Byzantine and Saracenic origin is constantly preserved — in the tracery, in the scroll-work and foliage, in the rendering of classical orna- ments; and in the earlier…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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