Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 349
of surfaces ; and down to thepresent day the Arabian artists have always displayed fargreater ability in designing the most complicated orna-ment and geometrical figures on plane surfaces than in thetreatment and proportioning of masses. Although weoccasionally see difficulties of construction well…
Decoration and ornament -- History · Architecture -- History
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