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 204
RUSSIAN ORNAMENT. … artaric influence — which dates chiefly from 1237 to 1480,when the Tartars were in power—may be regarded beyondany doubt as the chief cause why the pure Byzantine styleoriginally established in Russia came to be changed lateron into the Ornament special to that country. There, asinto every other…
Decoration and ornament
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