Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875, Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893, Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877, Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher · London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly · leaf 89
■HHH GREEK ORNAMENT. generally received principle is sufficient to generate an entirely new order of forms and ideas.Koman ornament is constantly struggling against this apparently fixed law. At the head of theRoman chapter is a fine example, which may be taken as a type of all other Eoman… … From the Choragic Monument of Lysierates, Athens.—L. Vulliamt. another stem, encircling a flower. The change which took place during the Byzantine period ingetting rid of this fixed law was as important in its results to the development of ornament,as was the substitution of the arch by the Romans…
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