Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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ank notes, Share certificates, &c. areprinted. Ornamentation by means of arcs plays a conspicuous part inGothic tracery, which will be treated-of in the following chapter. Plate 18. The Circle. 1—12. Different divisions and intersections. 13 —16. Tracery in the Gothic style. 17. Centre of a mosaic pavament, Pompeii, (Kunsthandwerk). Gothic Tracery. (Plate 19.) In the forms of Tracery, the Gothic style evolved and broughtto perfection a characteristic decoration by means of arcs of circles.And although the results have something stiff and mechanical, whencompared with the ornaments taken direct from nature in other styles,it cannot be denied that they possess a great originality, and richnessof form. Tracery was chiefly applied to stone, and wood; in architecture,and furniture; for galleries, windows, and panels, &c. Well-known forms are the circles (figs. 13—16 of Plate 18showing 2, 3, 4 and 6 foliations), the trefoil (Plate 19, figs. 3 and 4), •2S GEOMETRICAL MOTIVES.
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Plate 18. The Circle, and its Subdivision. GEOMETRICAL MOTIVES.

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