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 74
es ; and it added to them the spiral ; the guilloche, or speira (plat) ; the acanthus ; and, in a very simple development, the ordinary scroll, consisting of a succession of spirals reversed alternately. It further established the practice of carving the ornaments, instead of merely painting them,… … The tirst of these two styles was magnificently displayed by the Parthenon at Athens, 438 b.c. The second was best exhibited in the Ionic temples of Asia Minor ; but it is also very completely represented in the Erechtheium ; and in a third order, the acanthus, called historically the
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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