Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 321
nd shows thesame sense of beauty that produced the Yenus and Apollo,Compare with it the zigzag employed by the Egyptians forthe same purpose, which has a rigid, fixed, angular character,indicating no artistic sympathy, giving promise of no pro-gression. Yet have these zigzag lines passed, it is… … The entire imitative arts of some countries have beenconfined within a convention restricted from developmentand remaining the same for centuries, except that the exe-cution might be more or less perfect. The Doric and Ioniccapitals and shafts, proportioned on given principles, servedthe Greeks for…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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