. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. Plate 29. The Vine: Natural. NATURAL FORMS. 47. The Vine: Artificial. Plate 30. 48 The Vine, the Lotus, the Papynis, and the Palm. The ecclesiastical art of the Middle Ages adopted the Vine, toge-ther with ears of Corn, as the symbol of Christ. Later styles, and Modern art, have adopted the Vine in both tb&antique and medieval senses. Plate 29. The Natural branch. Plate 30. The Vine. 1. Scroll ornament, Roman rplief. 2. Eoman ornament, vertical
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. Plate 29. The Vine: Natural. NATURAL FORMS. 47. The Vine: Artificial. Plate 30. 48 The Vine, the Lotus, the Papynis, and the Palm. The ecclesiastical art of the Middle Ages adopted the Vine, toge-ther with ears of Corn, as the symbol of Christ. Later styles, and Modern art, have adopted the Vine in both tb&antique and medieval senses. Plate 29. The Natural branch. Plate 30. The Vine. 1. Scroll ornament, Roman rplief. 2. Eoman ornament, vertical Border. 3. Early Gothic ornament, Notre Dame, Paris, (Lifevre). 4. Renascence ornament, Italian pilaster. 5. Renascence ornament, frieze, Venice, IGth century, (Griiner). The Lotus, the Papyrus, and the Palm. (Plate 31.) The Lotus and the Papyrus are plants of ancient ariental civi-lisation; and play an important part in the social life of the Egyptians,Hindoos, Assyrians, and other nations. The dried stalks of these waterplants were used as fuel, or made into mats and other plaited arti-cles; their roots served as food; the pith as wicks for lamps. Thepaper of the ancients was m
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