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 94
e and acanthus scroll—Roman mosaic. capital is the invention of a poet, not of apractical ornamentist. Again, on the Roman pedestal on p. 35,where there is no scroll and no branchingand no great variety of foliation, one may seevery plainly indeed how the familiar type offoliation may have grown… … Photo-Timt iy James Akennsn.Loncloii.W. C 1?etai1s of/Mosaic froTT) Carthage. Nattire in Ornament. 7 of five, not separate leaves, but massed togethersculpturesquely, forming at the junction ofthe groups the pipes so conspicuous in thefull-grown Classic scroll. In the Roman mosaic border on p. 36…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
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