Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 344
c ciC a m o S o ri p OI o SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT. 323 developed in the Moresque diapers of the Alhambra, wherethe conventional leaves and flower forms were mixed withSaracenic inscriptions, and were redeemed from theiraridity by the almost sensuous character of the colouring,which has… … Fig. 362. —Kuhc Writing, from the Alhambra. composition (see Fig. 343). It may be noticed thatsome of the leaf-work in these diapers have a feather-likedecoration, which gives richness and variety to the orna-ment : these markings are evidently derived from theparallel veining of Byzantine acanthus…
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