Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 105
16. Seventeenth century scroll—BouUe. 42 JVahire in Ornament, … 17. Detailsof Romanesque ornament. may be here observed, is a very common de-fect of Italian arabesque—as of Arab art also,although in it the detail is so very far re-moved from life that the defect is less apparent.Even in its degradation, however, the Renais-sance arabesque never quite let go the…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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