Ward, James, 1851-1927 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 83
the Cinque Cento period, afford the best examplesof this painted foliage. The acanthus was the parent ofnearly all the subsequent styles of decorative foliage downto our Early English Gothic, and the history of its modifi-cations has clearly established the difficulty of trying toimprove on the… … have given their thoughts to it, but no lasting results haveas yet foreshadowed themselves. Cf late years thereappears to be a kind of scroll-work very much in favourwith some artists. It of course cannot be called new, anymore than anything else in the world ; but its persistentapplication, from…
Decoration and ornament
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