Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers (1872)
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Mackie, Samuel Joseph, Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887 · London, Virtue & co. · leaf 174
rt. It may not be altogether foreign to the subject briefly toconsider the united power of geometric figures, in conjunction CRVSTALS OF SNOW. i59 with colour, to produce the striking and beautiful effects whichform so important a feature in Byzantine and Moresque mosaic(but particularly the… … Fig. 42. are always extremely simple in structure, some being made upentirely of the triangle, others of stars either six or eight rayed,singly or enclosed in a hexagon or octagon placed at intervals,and united by the more simple figure of the triangle, which,arranged in groups, serve as connecting…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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