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 273
ions of theleaves are produced by so many digs of thegraver. The stiffness of the zigzag stem, itshould be mentioned, is modified, in the actualbronze, by the fact that it is on the curvedmember of a moulding. The severe simplicity of the Byzantinedesign (p. 115) fits it for its intended purposeof… … 94. Vine in Gothic glass-painting. to mark the subdivisions of the leaves moreemphatically. In the Arab leaf (Plate 54) the need ofsomething like veins was felt by the sculptor; ^late 60.
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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