Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 160
d handed down to modern times.Turning, for example, to Assyrio-Persian Art, we shallfind recorded amongst the remains of that decorativesystem a beginning of this foliage,—an initial attemptto construct, out of simple forms which already existed,the ornamental element which entered so largelyinto… … ORIGIN OF THE ACANTHUS. 147 closer together. Here the likeness to a leaf is atonce apparent, and, no doubt, this fact struck theoriginator of the pattern; and so, in his desire forfurther elaboration, he referred to Nature, and addedthe serrations to the edges of the forms, marking eachlobe with a…
Decoration and ornament
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