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 56
ive pleasure to the gay spirit of the luxurious Athenians who livedat the time of Pericles when Greek art was in its glory. The Doric was, there-fore, partly superseded by the Ionic, and, later on, by the Corinthian style. Theornamentation in these two styles allowed more play to the artists fancy,… … Late Doric Frieze found in the wall of a church at Athens. 46 GREEK ORNAMENT. Plate 17.
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