 | William Smith Ellis - 1869 - 408 páginas
...other phyllomorphic or vegetable ornament, — the classical acanthus thus being entirely ignored ; and secondly, in the extreme intricacy and excessive minuteness and elaboration of thp various patterns, mostly geometrical, consisting of interlaced ribbon work, diagonal or spiral... | |
 | 1875 - 286 páginas
...any other part of the world. Celtic ornament was doubtless of independent origin, but it everywhere bears the impress received by the early introduction...birds, with their tailfeathers, top-knots, and tongues prolonged into long interlacing ribbons, which are intertwined in almost endless forms, and in the... | |
 | 1875 - 286 páginas
...doubtless of independent origin, but it everywhere bears the impress received by the early introductionof Christianity into the islands. The chief peculiarities...birds, with their tailfeathers, top-knots, and tongues prolonged into long interlacing ribbons, which are intertwined in almost endless forms, and in the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1877 - 236 páginas
...elaborately profuse, and which show both an Egyptian and a Grecian influence. XIV. CHINESE ORNAMENT. little appreciation of pure form, beyond geometrical...fantastic manner. Celtic manuscripts of the Gospels wrere often ornamented with a great profusion of these intricate designs. What is called the Celtic... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1878 - 558 páginas
...foliage or other phyUqmorphic or vegetable ornament, the classical acanthus being entirely ignored ; and secondly, in the extreme intricacy and excessive...minuteness and elaboration of the various patterns, mostly geomctrical, consisting of interlaced ribbon work, diagonal or spiral lines, and strange monstrous... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1892 - 488 páginas
...absence of foliage or other vegetable ornament, the classical acanthus being entirely ignored ; and 2, in the extreme intricacy and excessive minuteness...patterns, mostly geometrical, consisting of interlaced ribbon work, diagonal or spiral lines, and strange monstrous animals and birds, with long top-knots,... | |
 | 1904 - 572 páginas
...Celtic style consist : first, of the entire absence of foliage or other vegetable ornament ; second, the extreme intricacy and excessive minuteness and elaboration of the various patterns, most of which are geometrical, consisting of interlaced ribbon work, diagonal or spiral lines— each... | |
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Celtic ornament was doubtless of independent origin, but it every where bears the impress received by the early introduction of Christianity into the islands. The chief peculiarities of Celtic ornament consist, first, in the entire absence of foliage... 