Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Fig. 40. constitute the archeus of the figure, we are impressed with aconviction of their truth and conformity to the natural principlesof beauty. The impulse created in their favour is thus subsequently con-firmed on rational and acknowledged grounds of admiration. 158 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. This is the more satisfactory that, belonging to no school ofarchitecture or design, they may be considered as originating anew order of forms for the further supply or extension of those solong ack
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Fig. 40. constitute the archeus of the figure, we are impressed with aconviction of their truth and conformity to the natural principlesof beauty. The impulse created in their favour is thus subsequently con-firmed on rational and acknowledged grounds of admiration. 158 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. This is the more satisfactory that, belonging to no school ofarchitecture or design, they may be considered as originating anew order of forms for the further supply or extension of those solong acknowledged and admired. We do not, however, considerthat they will equally well assimilate with all or any of the ordersof decorative art. It appears to us, according to the means placed. Fig. 41. at our disposal for arriving at a conclusion, that they are analogousin many respects to the numerous specimens of angular composi-tion which belong to the mediaeval period of Byzantine art. It may not be altogether foreign to the subject briefly toconsider the united power of geometric figures, in conjunction CRVSTALS OF SNOW. i59 with colour, to produce the striking and beautiful effects whichform so important a feature in Byzantine and Moresque mosaic(but particularly the former) specimens of art. The base of Byzantine mosaic is principally the relation ofthe hexagon to the triangle, upon which base almost innumerablecombinations have been constructed. These Byzantine mosaics
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