Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 210
Fig. 96. — Roman Arabesque. highly artificial, consisting of formal scrolls and meanders, andthe leafage and other forms introduced are treated artificiallywithout being finely conventionalized. The conventions of this … iPUBUCUb ARCHITECTURAL CARVING 169 art are not the natural result of a true sense of ornamentalabstraction, of architectural fitness, and of the nature of mate-rials. They do not manifest a fine appreciation of the beautyof the object conventionalized. They are factitious conventionswhich often do…
Architecture, Renaissance
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