. Teacher's manual for freehand drawing in intermediate schools. -where discover applications of the historic decora-tive forms presented on these pages. The acanthushe will meet on all hands. When other motives are MORESQUE. 237. 238 TEACHERS MANUAL. used, he will find them treated according to the prin-ciples here illustrated. Again, when we desire toproduce decoration wholly original, our success ispromoted b} a knowledge of what has been done byothers. Page of Moresque Forms. The specimens of Moresque ornament given onthe preceding page are from the royal palace, calledthe Alhambra, in Gre
. Teacher's manual for freehand drawing in intermediate schools. -where discover applications of the historic decora-tive forms presented on these pages. The acanthushe will meet on all hands. When other motives are MORESQUE. 237. 238 TEACHERS MANUAL. used, he will find them treated according to the prin-ciples here illustrated. Again, when we desire toproduce decoration wholly original, our success ispromoted b} a knowledge of what has been done byothers. Page of Moresque Forms. The specimens of Moresque ornament given onthe preceding page are from the royal palace, calledthe Alhambra, in Grenada, Spain. This palace wascompleted by the Moors in 1348, having been ahundred 3ears in building. In Moresque ornamentleaves, flowers, and other natural forms, appear onlyin a highly-disguised character when they appear atall. But, while there is no imitation of naturalforms, curves are often grouped in a flower-likemanner, and the general treatment harmonizes withNature. Interlacing and straplike work abounds. 1, 2, 3, 5. Observe that the two same general forms arensed in these ornaments, nioditied to suit ea<?h individualcase. These two forms, leaf and bnd, are seen in 5 : simpleas they are, they constitute two of t
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