Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 89
Fig. 71. Assyrian Vo-lutes. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT the palaces show how they were used, as muUions and assupports for pavilions. In these, as also in furniture,coupled volutes are favorite devices, and undoubtedly furnish the first step in the de-velopment of the Ionic capital(Fig. 71). … Living Forms. The human figure, grotesquesor monsters, part man and partbeast, and representations ofanimals, all play a large part inAssyrian decorative art; notmerely in the great pictures inlow relief which wainscoted thelower parts of the interior walls,but in more purely ornamental Fig. 72. a.…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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