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 274
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. … : F.KJi,T:iiot.i,tb.-,.3rvcr.—I jt H^ibe»,E.(: Vine by ^Ibrecbt Diirer. Parallel Renderings, 127 and the ingeniously ornamental tracery bywhich he supplied their place is a lesson indesign. In Plate 61 I have taken a hint from somesixteenth century damascening, and diaperedthe leaves with arabesque…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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