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 400
nce did not succeed in developing into a homogenous Style orcharacteristic System, a circumstance due to ruling loeal conditions which rendered itimpossible to do what was done in France, namely to unify the prevailing style of Archi-tecture peculiar to the Middle Ages with the Antique forms. In… … 390 GERMAN RENAISSANCE ORNAMENT. The German Renaissance possesses no monumental aspect its chief power lying in theartistic grouping and ornamental treatment of details. It was only in a later period that acorrect architectural tendency became apparent, which, however, was brought to a…
Decoration and ornament
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