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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ingle head and double body), and in free shapes as fire dogs, &c.The Barocco period adorns gardens and portals with crouching Sphinxes,(the castle garden at Schwetzingen contains a considerable number). Centaurs are imaginary wild monsters, with the fore part of a Manand the hinder part of a Horse. Among the Greeks, the Centaur ori-ginally symbolised the Thessalian race of equestrian renown. Mytho-logy recounts their struggles with the Lapithae. Later delineations,such as the mural paintings of Pompeii, depict the Centaurs lesswild, tamed to the service of Dionysos, and sporting with Amorini andBacchantes. The decorative capabilities of these fantastic figures hasensured them renewed application in later styles; and they are some-times used in modern decoration. Plate 69. The Sphinx, and the Centaur. 1. Crouching Sphinx, Egyptian, Louvre, Paris, (Raguenet). 2. Crouching Sphinx with ram head, Egyptian, (Raguenet). 3. Lower corner of an antique candelabrum, Roman. NATURAL FORMS. 107
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The Sphinx, and the Centaur. Plate 69. lOS NATUEAL FORMS.

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