A Handbook of Ornament With 300 Plates Containing About 3000 Illustrations of T
A Handbook of Ornament With 300 Plates Containing About 3000 Illustrations of T
Franz Sales Meyer
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They divide the figure into 8 equal spaces, which are usually decorated with repeated orna- ment, and are therefore suitable to the horizontal attitude, (compare Plate 151, figs. 2 — 6 and others). Numerically this mode of deco- ration is predominant. Rarer are the cases in which the angle is once more bisected and the square consequently divided into 16 tri- angles, (compare Plate 154, fig. 7). The simplest decoration is the many-rayed star, which is termed the Uraniscus, in the coffers oi Gre...ek ceilings (comp. Plate 151, fig. 1). The centre of the figure is generally accentuated by the addition of a rosette, and the direction of growth, like plant-motives, is from the centre outwards (Plate 151, fig. 2, 3, 5, 6 and others); or alternately from the centre outwards and inwards (comp. Plate 151. 4). Slight variations from strict symmetry and regularity are partly caused by the use of the geo- metrical interlaced band (Plate 153. 3 and 4), and are partly the deliberate result of artistic freedom of conception (Plate 152.
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