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 367
ite at the base of the flower, running with a suddenbend into the tall green stem, which is again, but moreirregularly, fenced round by the tall green blades. Markagain the general arrangement of the rose with its manyleaves seemingly irregular on a bush of many leavesaccidentally irregular in… … I instance these vegetable forms only because they arelimited and easily referred to. God made man in His ownimage, and there is nothing else in the world that can besaid to be in the highest sense beautiful. SYMMETKY. 351 The second condition that may be safely pointed out asnecessary to beauty is…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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