it is cunning, is enhanced bythe humorous rendering of the familiar rhyme ? An artistwith exceptional gifts of design, sufficiently at home with thefigure to take liberties with it, may without unduly degradingit, turn it to the merest pattern-work. A man must be allowednow and again to lay aside… … 276. GROTESQUE FORMS IN ITALIAN ARABESQUE. Nevertheless, it is far better that animals in ornamentshould not be repeated, but as was the case in the less severelytreated incidental animals in the incised border of which aportion is given on page 289, that the hunt should go gailyalong without…
Decoration and ornament
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