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 40
ORNAMENT. 28 mere imitative skill, employed on the most beautiful natural materials, out of the strict province of so-called fine art, will engender but mere fanciful vagaries, utterly powerless on the eye as ornament, when compared with even the crudest materials of the coarsest execution, if only… … A.F.F Greek Terra Cotta.
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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