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 234
phagi, in Coptic embroideries,and in early Sicilian silks ; it recurs in everyform of Gothic art, and throughout all phasesof the Renaissance. In the Assyrian treatment of the vine aboveone finds, of course, the archaic formalityof the age of Sennacherib, but at the sametime a certain adherence to… … O Parallel Renderings. 107 there is a suggestion in that of the way fruit-trees are still trained in modern orchard houses.Again, there is a sort of natural spring inthe lines themselves ; and in the arrangementof the five branches (which is not accordingto nature) one seems to see a reference to…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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