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 486
Renaissance. In work of our own day, the bulls headreminds one too much of the butchers shop,and the Classic ox-skull is still more un-pleasantly suggestive. Artists of the Renais-sance, however, seem to have seen no reasonwhy they should not treat the skull orna-mentally. To many of us the rather… … J AkermaTi.PhotoLith London. Peacock feather palters, Turkish. Still Life in Ornauient, 229 such order as to presentwhat passes for an orna-mental appearance; repeata shape several times over,and it forms a sort of pat-tern ; but that is not ex-actly ornamental design. The occasional introduc-tion…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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