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Title: Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909 Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 Mackie, Samuel Joseph Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Nature (Aesthetics)
Publisher: London, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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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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Fig. 42. are always extremely simple in structure, some being made upentirely of the triangle, others of stars either six or eight rayed,singly or enclosed in a hexagon or octagon placed at intervals,and united by the more simple figure of the triangle, which,arranged in groups, serve as connecting links from one to the i6o ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. other. The whole composition is rendered either sparkling ormonotonous according to the .employment of contrasted effects ora limited and uniform range of colour, and is admirably illus-trative of how the uniformity of the geometric figure may bebroken up and destroyed, its very character changed, indeed,according to the system of colouring adopted—an illustration

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