Decorative elements in architecture; random observations on the eternal fitness of things from a decorative point of view Volume 21 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... resemble the others which flank it on either side, but be more developed or accentuated. In some instances this idea has been developed into making the central shoot a flower and the lateral shoots leaves. The centre of the Palmette does not always coincide with the centre from which the shoots radiate, and can be occupied by some such motif as a rose, discus, patera, arrow-head, leaf, medallion, mask, etc. In their adoption of the Anthemion, the Romans added thereto a number of distinguishing characteristics,--such, for instance, as alternating the Anthemion, disposing first one pointing upwards, and the next downwards. During the Byzantine period, and later the Romanesque and Gothic eras, the Anthemion was used but rarely. It reappeared, however, with the Renaissance together with all other forms of Greek classicism, since which time its glory has remained undimmed. LV1I. LOUIS XIV REGENCE DOOR The shell which had already had its hour of popularity with the Romans, became the rage during the Renaissance and particularly during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV Another important classical enrichment is the guilloche, which in its incipient form suggests a tendril origin. Specimens of this ornament have been found in Assyrian floor slabs. The inspiration for the guilloche can be readily traced to braiding, but at a later period than the Greek there was a more definite arrangement of the plait. The guilloche in which the plait is single recurs in every country where the architecture of the Renaissance penetrated. While the rectilinear ornaments are of greater antiquity, those based upon curvilinear principles have had a greater vogue. While curved decorations are not all susceptible of geometrical definition, a number of them being based upon...
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