Explore: Victorian Style Decoration And Ornament

In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental

publication was The Grammar of Ornament (1856), in which Jones formulated 37 key principles of interior design and decoration. Jones was employed by some

excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle

furniture were often rectilinear and had "geometric ornament, turnings, brackets, trestles, and incised linear decoration." Additionally, the designs were

that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building". Urging modern craftsmen to seek to emulate the style of medieval

"Modern art and the grotesque" (PDF). Assets.cambridge.org. Zamperini, Alessandra (2008). Ornament and the Grotesque: Fantastical Decoration from Antiquity

white glaze with fine brush painted decoration in imitation of the Italian Renaissance maiolica process and styles. Glaze is a vitreous coating on a ceramic

patterning and ornament still resonate with contemporary designers today. He rose to prominence with his studies of Islamic decoration at the Alhambra, and the

revived in Renaissance architecture. Ornament is also normally in the classical tradition, but typically restrained, and sometimes almost completely absent

Owen Jones on The Grammar of Ornament, as well as on the 1863 decoration of the oriental courts (Chinese, Japanese, and Indian) at the South Kensington