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 409
ilstlike enough to nature to be recognised at aglance, are quite conventional enough tocorrespond with the foliage ; and their valueas masses of solid colour amidst the smallerand more broken detail is none the less onthat account. As a rendering of the bird, and especiallyof the birds wing, the… … 145. Egyptian^wing treatment—vultures.f simple, dignified, and decorative wing-treat-ment. But it is not only in birds that wings occurin ornament. They are appended (moreespecially in Renaissance art) to every con-ceivable thing, to sphinxes and chimeras, menand animals, griffins and all manner of…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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