The volute in architecture and architectural decoration with particular reference to its introduction into the Ionic order (1918)
Newcomb, Rexford, 1886-1968 · leaf 48
rm. In the early Egyptian annulets, the spiral is used as 3 a space-filling motif around the scarabaeus. This is not true, however, of the spirals of just a littlelater period in the history of the race. The introduction ofmetals; bronze,gold, or silver made possible a much wider art-istic… … and Fig. 5. Here spirals appear, although geometrical in spirit, as the antennae of butterflies and arms of octopi. These disks, together with certain vases found at Mycenae and in Crete, show spiral forms midway between the very abstract spirals of eany peoples and the more naturalistic spirals as…
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