Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)
Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 111
the Western Empire of the Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Byzantine influence predominated, andas the Roman style became developed, a new art period made itself manifest.Pure Celtic ornament, far purer than in France, existed in the British Islandsup into the 12* century. This part of… … CELTIC ORNAMENT. 101 Germanic Ornament was entirely confined to the decoration of weaponsand useful articles. Nothing was known of architecture, not even of archi-tecture in wood, even rites and ceremonieswere never held within doors, but in theopen air under a tree. n their first attempts at…
Decoration and ornament
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