_Alternation_ is the repetition of an element at intervals, with others
intervening; _Symmetry_: when the leading lines are equal or similar (or
reciprocal) on both sides; _Radiation_: when the lines spring from a
centre, for example, a bird’s wing and the flower of the daisy;
_Balance_ and _Proportion_: when the relation and harmony of parts is
based upon natural laws; _Variety_ implies difference in the details,
with respect to form or type; _Eurythmy_ signifies rhythms or harmony in
ornament; _Contrast_ is the arrangement in close proximity of colours or
forms of opposite characters, as the straight line with the curve, or
light with dark; _Intersection_ is the crossing of the leading lines,
the Arabian, Moresque and Celtic styles are examples of this principle;
_Complication_ is the effect produced by elements so arranged as to be
more or less difficult to trace with the eye alone: as in the Japanese
key and the Moresque star pattern. _Fitness_ and _utility_ as their
names imply are essentials in all good periods of ornamentation.
[Illustration: ROMAN SCROLL.]
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Text Books upon Architecture and Ornament.
Classic and Early Christian Architecture _Roger Smith_, 5/-
Gothic and Renascence _Roger Smith_, 5/-
Glossary of Architecture _J. Parker_, 7/6
Handbook of Architectural Styles _Rosengarten_, 7/6
Introduction to Gothic Architecture _J. Parker_, 5/-
Three Manuals of Gothic Ornament _J. Parker_, _each_ 1/-
Classic and Early Christian Sculpture _G. Redford_, 5/-
Gothic and Renascence Sculpture _Leader Scott_, 5/-
Handbook of Greek Sculpture, 2 vols. _Ed. Gardner_, 10/-
History of Greek Art _Tarbell_, 5/-
Analysis of Ornament _J. Wornum_, 8/-
Handbook of Ornament _Meyer_, 10/6
An excellent series of illustrated Handbooks upon the Industrial Arts by
writers of repute, is published by the Science and Art Department, and
may be obtained at the Bookstall of the South Kensington Museum, at a
cost of 1/-each part (paper covers), or they may be purchased through
Messrs. Chapman and Hall, at 2/6 each part, bound in cloth, they
include:
The Industrial Arts of India _Sir G. Birdwood_ }
“ “ Spain _Juan F. Riano_ }
“ “ Denmark _J. J. Worsaae_ }
“ “ Scandinavia _Hans Hildebrand_ }
The Saracens of Egypt _Stanley Lane Poole_ } each in
Early Christian Art in Ireland _Margaret Stokes_ } two parts.
English Earthenware _A. H. Church_ }
“ Porcelain _A. H. Church_ }
French Pottery _P. Gasnault & E. Garnier_ }
Wrought Iron Work _J. Starkie Gardner_ }
Bronzes _Drury E. Fortnum_ }
College and Corporation Plate _Wilfred Cripps_ }
Furniture _J. H. Pollen_ }
Gold and Silversmith’s Work _J. H. Pollen_ }
Glass _A. Nesbitt_ }
Ivories _W. Maskell_ } complete
Japanese Pottery _A. W. Franks_ } in
Maiolica _Drury E. Fortnum_ } one part.
Persian Art _R. Murdoch Smith_ }
Textile Fabrics _Rev. Daniel Rock_ }
Tapestry _Alfred de Champeaux_}
The Industrial Arts }
* * * * *
Works of Reference.
Architecture:--
Antiquities of Rome _Taylor & Cresy_.
Antiquities of Athens _Stuart & Revett_.
Analysis of Gothic Architecture _Brandon_.
Architecture for General Readers _H. H. Statham_.
Byzantine Architecture _Texies & Pullan_.
Constantinople _Salzenberg_.
Civil Architecture _Chambers_.
Decorated Window Tracery _E. Sharpe_.
Encyclopædia of Architecture _Gwilt_.
English Renascence Architecture _J. A. Gotch_.
Gothic Mouldings _F. A. Paley_.
Gothic Architecture _T. Rickman_.
Gothic Architecture in France _E. Corroyer_.
Gothic Architecture in Spain _G. E. Street_.
Gothic Foliage _J. K. Collings_.
Handbook of Architecture _J. Fergusson_.
History of Architecture _J. Fergusson_.
Indian and Eastern Architecture _J. Fergusson_.
Mansions of England _J. Nash_.
Old English Mansions _C. Richardson_.
Orders of Architecture _R. Phéne Spiers_.
Orders of Architecture _C. Norman_.
Orders of Architecture _J. M. Manch_.
Spanish Renascence _D. N. Prentice_.
Stones of Venice _J. Ruskin_.
Seven Lamps of Architecture _J. Ruskin_.
The Seven Periods of Church Architecture _E. Sharpe_.
Ornament and Sculpture:--
Art of the Old English Potter _L. M. Solon_.
Ancient Pottery _S. Birch_.
Alphabets _E. Strange_.
Alphabets _Lewis F. Day_.
Basis of Design _Walter Crane_.
Fresco Decoration in Italy _L. Gruner_.
Grammar of Ornament _Owen Jones_.
Greek and Roman Sculpture _W. G. Perry_.
Greek Vase Painting _Jane Harrison_.
Glass Painting _C. Winston_.
Stained Glass Windows _Lewis F. Day_.
Handbook of Greek Archæology _A. S. Murray_.
Primitive Greece }
Persia }
Phrygia } _George Perrot and
Sardinia and Asia Minor } C. Chipiez_.
Chaldea and Assyria }
Egypt }
Keramic Art of Japan _Audsley & Bowles_.
Nineveh _Layard_.
Ornamental Metal Work _Digby Wyatt_.
Ornamental Art _Gruner_.
Ornamental Textiles _Fischbach_.
Ornament of Textile Fabrics _Dupont Auberville_.
Pompeii _Zahn_.
Polychromatic Ornament _Racinet_.
The Alhambra _Owen Jones_.
Alfred Stevens, his life and work _Hugh Stannus_.
Many excellent “CANTOR LECTURES,” by experts, upon the practical
application of the Industrial Arts, will be found in the _Society of
Arts Journal_.
The following Lectures may be studied with advantage:
April, 1891 Cloisonné _Clement Heaton_.
Feb., 1894 Decorative Treatment of Artificial
Foliage _Hugh Stannus_.
April, 1891 Decorative Treatment of Natural
Foliage _Hugh Stannus_.
June, 1897 Delft Ware _J. W. L. Glaisher_.
March, 1891 Enamels _J. Starkie Gardner_.
Jan., 1892 Indian Art _Sir G. Birdwood_.
Feb., 1892 Japanese Pottery _E. Hart_.
Feb., 1891 Lithography _W. Simpson_.
Jan., 1897 Material and Design in Pottery _William Burton_.
April, 1891 Plaster Work _A. Robinson_.
Feb., 1891 Storiation _Hugh Stannus_.
Feb., 1891 S’graffito _Heywood Sumner_.
March, 1899 Vitreous Enamels _C. Davenport_.
Feb., 1898 Some Laws of Form in Applied Art _Hugh Stannus_.
In the transactions of the Rochdale Literary Society for 1891 (_Aldine
Press_) is a most instructive and well-illustrated article on “The
Ornamental Art of Savage People,” by _Dr. Hjalmar Stolpe_, translated by
Mrs. H. C. March.
The transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
(1891) contains an excellent article upon “The Pagan Christian Overlap
in the North,” by _H. Colley March, M.D._
The illustrated articles in the transactions of the Royal Institute of
British Architects, may also be studied with advantage, they include:
1892 Byzantine Architecture _George Aitchison_.
1892 Casting in Metals _D. Graham, H. Longden &
H. Singer_.
1891 Decorative Plaster Work _G. Robinson, Heywood Sumner
and Stephen Webb_.
1897 Heraldry in English Mediæval
Architecture _W. H. St. John Hope_.
1897 Heraldry of the Renascence in England _Alfred Gotch_.
1898 Heraldic Drawing _J. D. Crace_.
1894 Mosaics _C. H. Harrison & J. C. Powell_.
1898 Sculptured Columns of the Temple at
Ephesus _A. S. Murray_.
1891 Sculpture in relation to Architecture _G. Simonds_.
1892 Stained Glass _H. Charpenter, J.
Powell, H. Westlake
and C. Heaton_.
1891 Wrought Iron Work, Mediæval Period _J. Starkie Gardner_.
1891 Wrought Iron Work, Renascence Period _J. Starkie Gardner_.
Good articles are found in the _Magazine of Art_, they include:
1897 Chippendale Furniture _C. Dempsey_.
1893 Design _Walter Crane_.
1890 Embroidered Bookcovers _S. E. Prideaux_.
1896 Ironwork _J. Starkie Gardner_.
1888 Language of Line _Walter Crane_.
1882-3 Stained Glass _Lewis F. Day_.
1883 Sheraton Furniture _E. Balfour_.
1891 The Use of Metals in Bookbinding _S. E. Prideaux_.
1884 The Ficoroni Dressing Case
1896 The Influence of Architecture Style
upon Design _Walter Crane_.
In the _Art Journal_, there is:
1888 Ancient Glass in the British Museum _Henry Wallis_.
1889 Antique Glass in the Naples Museum _Henry Wallis_.
1888 Textile Fabrics in the South Kensington
Museum _Gilbert R. Redgrave_.
1887 Meaning in Ornament _Lewis F. Day_.
1888 The Boulaq Museum _Henry Wallis_.
In the _Portfolio_, there is:
1893 Old English Pottery _A. H. Church_.
1893 English Enamels _J. Starkie Gardner_.
1893 English Bookbinding _W. Y. Fletcher_.
1894 Bookbinding in France _W. Y. Fletcher_.
1894 Italian Book Illustrations _A. W. Pollard_.
1894 Josiah Wedgwood _A. H. Church_.
1898 Greek Bronzes _A. S. Murray_.
1897 Armour in England _J. Starkie Gardner_.
1898 Foreign Armour in England _J. Starkie Gardner_.
In the _Builder_, there are the Royal Academy Lectures upon Architecture
given by _George Aitchison, R.A._ They include:
1891 Roman Architecture.
1892 Saracenic Architecture.
1893 Byzantine Architecture.
1894 Renascence Architecture.
1896 Romanesque Architecture.
Index.
PAGE.
Alberti, Leon, Battista, 57
Aldus Manutius, 54
Alhambra, 63
Amasis, 77
Anthemion, 7-17
Andreani, Andrea, 54
Apollodorus, 27
Arabesque, 53-54
Arch of Septimus Severus, 21
Architecture
Capitals, 126
Composite, 22
Corinthian, 10
Decorated Gothic, 39-46-130
Doric, 9
Early Gothic, 38-45-129
English Renascence, 60
French Renascence, 58
Ionic, 9
Italian Renascence, 56
Perpendicular Gothic, 46
Tuscan, 22
Atrium, 23
Baccio d’Agnolo, 57
Balducco di Pisa, 50
Baptistery at Pisa, 49
Baptistery at Florence, 50-103
Basilica of Trajan, 27
Black Figure Vases, 77
Boule, André, 59-107
Bramante, 57
Bronzes, 103
Brunelleschi, 51-57
Buen Retiro, 83
Bullant, Jean, 58
Busti, Agostino, 54
Cachrylion, 77
Cambio, Arnolfo di, 49
Caradosso, 51
Caryatides, 9
Castor Ware, 80
Cellini, Benvenuto, 51
Celtic Ornament, 35
Ceramic Art, 78
Chairs, 106
Chaldea, 7
Champlevé Enamels, 35
Chinese Ornament, 71
Chippendale, 106
Chryselephantine Sculpture, 73
Cinque-Cento Ornament, 49-52
Classification of Temples, 11
Classification of Gothic Architecture, 36
Cloisonné Enamels, 91
Coleone, Bartolomeo, 103
Cologne Pots, 82
Column of Trajan, 27
Column of Marcus Aurelius, 27
Compluvium, 23
Continuity of Style, 125
Crockets, 45
Cronaca, 57
Decorated Gothic Details, 46
Delft Ware, 80
Dipylon Ware, 77
Domus, 23
Donatello, 51
Duris, 77
Early Gothic Details, 45
Earthenware, 79
Egyptian Ornament, 5
Elgin Marbles, 13
Elizabethan Ornament, 60
Elizabethan Mansions, 60
Enamels, 91
English Cathedrals, 40
English Renascence, 60
Epiktetos, 77
Euphronios, 77
Exekias, 77
Fauces, 23
Flaxman, 82
Fontana, 57
Fontano, Orazio, 87
French Cathedrals, 40
Frets, 123
Frieze of the Parthenon, 15
Frieze at Phigaleia, 15
Frieze at Pergamos, 16
Frieze from Susa, 17
Georgio, Maestro, 87-88
Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 50-103
Giotto, 49
Glass, 95-97
Gobelin Tapestry, 59
Goldsmith’s Work, 101
Gothic Architecture, 36
Goujon, Jean, 59-107
Gouthière, 59-107
Greek Architecture, 9
Greek Ceramics, 77
Grisaille Enamel, 93
Grisaille Glass, 98
Grinling Gibbons, 107
Grolier, 59
Henri Deux Period, 58
Henri Deux Pottery, 81
Henri Quatre, 58
Hepplewhite, 107
Hieron, 77
Hispano-Moresque Pottery, 87
Impluvium, 23
Indian Ornament, 69
Insular, 23
Ivories, 73
Jacobean, 60
Japanese Ornament, 71
Jean, Juste, 58
Jeweller’s Enamel, 92
Lacunaria, 25
Lancet Period, 38
Leoni, Lione, 51
Leoni, Pompeoni, 51
Lescot, Pierre, 58
Lombardo, Pietro, Tullio and Antonio, 54-56
Lotus, 7
Louis Quatorze, 59
Louis Quinze, 59
Louis Seize, 59
Maiolica, 87
Mantegna, Andrea, 54
Marquetry, 107
Matteo Civitali, 51
Mausoleum, 16
Melanesia, 3
Michel Angelo, 52
Michelozzi, 57
Mino da Fiesole, 51
Mosaics, 75
Mycenæ or Colonial Ware, 77
Nicosthenes, 77
Nineveh, 7
Norman Architecture, 37
Oiron Pottery, 81
Opus Tesselatum, 75
Opus Lithostratum, 75
Opus Miserum, 75
Painted Enamels, 91
Palaces in Italy, 57
Palissy, Bernard, 81
Palladio, Andrea, 56
Pamphæios, 77
Pantheon, 22
Pannitz, Arnold, 54
Parthenon, 13
Pastorino, 51
Patera, 7
Penni, Francesco, 53
Perino del Vaga, 53
Perpendicular Gothic, 46
Persian Ornament, 65
Peristylium, 23
Pethenos, 77
Peruvian Textiles, 118
Peruzzi, Baldassare, 57
Phaleron Ware, 77
Phidias, 13
Pisanello, 51
Pisano, Nicolo, 49
“ Giovanni, 49
“ Andrea, 50
“ Vittore, 51
Plaster Work, 61
Plique à Jour, 92
Polynesian Ornament, 2
Pompeian Ornament, 29
Porcelain, 79-83
Portland Vase, 95
Primaticcio, 54
Printing in Italy, 54
Pythos, 77
Quercia, Jacopo della, 50
Raphael, 53
Red Figured Ware, 77
Renascence Ornament, 49
Renascence Palaces, 57
Rhodian Pottery, 80
Riesener, 107
Robbia, Luca della, 51-87-90
“ Andrea “, 51-90
“ Giovanni “, 51-90
Roentgen, David, 107
Romano, Giulio, 53-54
Roman Ornament, 25
Rosette, 7
Rossellini, 51
Rouen Pottery, 81
Samian Ware, 80
Sangallo, Antonio, 57
“ Giuliano, 57
Sansovino, Andrea, 54
“ Jacopo, 54
Scandinavian Ornament, 33
Serlio, 56
Settignano, Desiderio da, 51
Sgraffito, 87
Sheraton, Thomas, 107
Sicilian Fabrics, 111
Silversmith’s Work, 101
Sperandio, 51
Stained Glass, 97
Stiacciato, 51
Stoneware, 82
St. Mark’s, 31
“ Apollinare Nuovo, 31
“ “ in Classe, 31
St. Sophia, 31
“ Vitale, 31
“ Paul’s, 61
Sweynheym, Conrad, 54
Tablinum, 23
Tapestry, 118
Terra Cotta, 89
Terms used in Ornamental Art, 131
Textile Fabrics, 109
Theatre of Marcellus, 21
Thermæ, 25
Tijon, Jean, 105
Toft, Thomas, 82
Torrigiano, 60
Trajan, 27
Trecento, 49
Triforium, 41
Triclinium, 23
Udine, Giovanni da, 53
Verrocchio, Andrea del, 51
Vestibule, 23
Vignola, 58
Vincentine, 51
Viridarium, 23
Vitruvius, 56
Watteau, 59
Wedgwood, 82
Well-heads, 57
Wheildon, Thomas, 82
Wrought Iron, 105
Zormorpic Ornament, 35
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