elf the end ofworkmanship. 136 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. The tediousness of commonplace mechanical production,depressing beyond measure to the sensitive artist, has induceda desire on the part of some to go back to medir^val ways ofworkmanship—not a very reasonable desire, intelligible as itmay… … 129. CHARACTERISTIC BUT ARCHAIC JAVANESE ORNAMENT. It is of no use trying to persuade the twentieth centuryto revert to the rudeness of the thirteenth. Whatever thecharm of Early Gothic work, its rudeness is out of keepingwith the ways of life to which we have long been accustomed ;and it is no…
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