Creative & imitative art : decoration and ornamentation (1873)
J. T. L. (J. T. Lyon) · Brussels : M. Weissenbruch · leaf 26
I 6 CREATIVE AND IMITATIVE by imitating; (see Jig. 2) but when we make it evident that such a figure has merely been our type for the beautifying of the column, then we are decorating by partly creating and partly imitating; (see Jig.])'. … cc Order », observes a well-known author, « is heaven’s first law, and there is a sensible pleasure attending the carrying of it out faithfully to the very smallest things. » It is, I suppose, unnecessary to dwell upon the fact that 1 This figure is, strictly speaking, not partly imitative at all.…
Decoration and ornament · Glass painting and staining
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