Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 116
The upper part of thehuman body undergoes little variation from its natural forms.Below the breast or the stomach, often defined by a girdle, there isdeveloped a sort of inverted foliage-cup, from which the scroll orna-ment grows. Half-figures are found not only in the fiat and in bas-relief, but… … Plate 65. The Medusa Head. NATUEAL FORMS. 103
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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