Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 216
e notonly a formal, and often a disjointed, scheme of composition,with artificial objects of no beauty or meaning introduced amongelements derived from natural forms, but numerous instancesoccur where the design is made up entirely of such objects, asin a pilaster in the National Museum of Florence… … Fig. ioi. — Leafage from the Ghibertigates. 174 ARCHITECTURE OE THE RENAISSANCE it may be taken as a true principle that architectural ornamentcannot be good unless it be an expression of the kind of beauty I do not say that the elementsof such ornament must be that we find in organic nature.
Architecture, Renaissance
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