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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 357

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Certainly the glass painterin designing a cruciformnimbus, the detail of whichis given (124), had no ideathat he was following Clas-sic precedent at all; norhe who stencilled the diaperof rays on the screen of a Norfolk church(below). The rays of lightarrange themselves more orless in the familiar… … 124. Gothic.

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