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This list is intended to give basic information on ornaments, with description and illustrations where possible. Ornaments are used in Western classical music , Western popular music e.g., ( rock music and pop music ) and traditional music (e.g., folk music and blues ) and in other world music and classical music from the eastern and Southern ...
Τypographic ornament in ancient city of Kamiros in Rhodes island, Greece. Flower decorations are among the oldest typographic ornaments. A fleuron can also be used to fill the white space that results from the indentation of the first line of a paragraph, [4] on a line by itself to divide paragraphs in a highly stylized way, to divide lists, or for pure ornamentation. [5]
Early examples of the use of garden ornaments in western culture were seen in Ancient Roman gardens such as those excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum.The Italian Renaissance garden and French formal garden styles were the peak of using created forms in the garden and landscape, with high art and kitsch interpretations ever since.
For Wilde, however, the inner meaning of Victorian decorative arts is fourfold: one must first reconstruct one’s inside so as to grasp what is outside in terms of both living quarters and mind, whilst hearkening back to von Humboldt on the way to Plato so as to be immersed in contemporaneous cosmopolitanism, [8] thereby in the ideal state ...
A fleuron is a flower-shaped ornament, [1] and in architecture may have a number of meanings: It is a collective noun for the ornamental termination at the ridge of a roof, such as a crop, finial or épi. It is also a form of stylised Late Gothic decoration in the form of a four-leafed square, often seen on crockets and cavetto mouldings.
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).
Ornamental iron, mild steel that has been formed into decorative shapes, similar to wrought iron work Ornamental plant , a plant that is grown for its ornamental qualities Ornament (architecture) , a decorative detail used to embellish parts of a building or interior furnishing
A medieval Italian word for designing textiles with interweaving threads or ribbons – ‘innodature’ – was adopted for similar designs in garden beds. [107] The English equivalent ‘knot’ had a broader meaning as any form of intricate work, not necessarily involving crossing or interlacing designs. [108]