Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 58
Fig. 3.—Florentine or Venetian Marriage Coffer, SouthKensington Museum, London. and distribution of detail, are all dominated by a highlydeveloped sense of the intrinsic beauty of rightly com-bined or contrasted curves, of the harmonious rhythm … Fig. 4.—Rinceau from Tomb in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. and swing and onward movement of the lines of thepattern (Figs. 4, 5, 6). This is a purely estheticquality, a kind of sensuous beauty quite independent 19 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT of symbolism and of any esoteric or recondite sig-nificance. In…
Decoration and ornament
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