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 515
e lines run in free curves, symmetry being avoided. Conse-quently, as a rule, it is more generally employed for interiors and for decorativeand industrial art. The style flourished in France for about thirty-five years. It was rarelyemployed in either Italy or the Netherlands, but remained in… … ROCOCO ORNAMENT. 505 after its introduction a reaction took place in whicli classic work commencedagain to predominate in the somewhat pedantic style of Louis XVI. This againbecame influenced by a new phase in which for the first time Greek art com-menced to show itself, resulting in the…
Decoration and ornament
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