Outlined Filled in
Illustration, not ornament Ornaments without perspective
EXAMPLE 108
The Corinthian style (Example [93]) expresses the preference of many who delight in ostentation and elaboration in ornament. The elaborate, showy acanthus leaf usually forms the chief decoration for the capital surmounting the column, and the entablature (Example [94]) is particularly rich in ornamentation.
The Doric pillar has been called masculine and the Ionic feminine, the sturdiness of the one and the grace of the other also being likened to the warlike Spartans who emphasized the development of the body and the artistic Athenians who especially developed the intellect.
This difference in ideals and preferences has come down the centuries to our time. A few years after Cromwell, plain, blunt, and even disapproving of sculpture and painting, was ruling England, across the channel Louis XIV. strutted in corsets and on high red heels amid gilt and glamour in the courts of France.
EXAMPLE 107
Type-border of English-Gothic pointed ornament.
Compare the black pointed effects with the Gothic type-face
Monks and nuns lived plainly in the company of bare walls and squarely cut chairs, and dressed in subdued browns and blacks, while at Rome surrounded by the art works of Michelangelo and Raphael the higher dignitaries were clothed in brilliant reds, and gold and white.
EXAMPLE 109
Extravagant wall border ornamentation, designed during the Renaissance in Italy