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 428
the remarkable unanimity withwhich artists of the Renaissance succumbedto temptation, and yet make bold to assert thepossibility, and the existence too, of suchtasteful and artistic use of the grotesque asonly a purist could find it in his uncomfortableconscience to reject. To persons of a somewhat… … Late Golbic llluiDipation. The Element of the Grotesque. 199 pass over the grotesque as a mere blot uponItalian arabesque, of which it is so essential acharacteristic. I would maintain on the con-trary, that something at least of the varietyand pregnancy of Quattro- and Cinque-centodesign is due to…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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