Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 103
93 ART IN ORNAMENTATION In figures 36, and again in the frontispiece, we may see how flowers are drawn in a creative manner, better than any writing can explain. We cannot say that there is much difficulty in designing a plain letter of the alphabet, the lines round the panel of a door, or those… … Fig. 3b. Egyptian. beauty upon its charming rotundity in perspective, and its delicate light and shade, should be, without any doubt, a matter of feeling, and not of mere reasoning, on the part of the designer, and my chief regret is that those rigidly mechanical repetitions of our day, should seem…
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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