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 269
re than an ornamentalleaf more or less in its likeness. Italian, French, or German rendering wasmodified always in some degree by nationalcharacter. In the Frangois premier foliage(p. 38), there is always a certain severity,showing that the carver had not quite thrownoff the Gothic yoke, under… … 93. German Renaissance. Aldegrever on thispage. Before our daysof archaeological pre-tence, there was in allornament an under-tone of national feel-ing, telling of thecountry to which itbelonged. There wasno need then of aTrade-marks Act toidentify it as carvedin France or Ger-many. At the risk…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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