Word: ornamentation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Obeyed" holds her head up like an antelope, and is quite as agile as that beautiful animal. It was observed on the opening night that one of these fair warriors looked like a certain Boston beauty who has achieved some distinction by her capture of foreign celebrities to ornament her "afternoons," but of course it is only a resemblance, though a close one. At any rate it is not safe to disbelieve in "dopple-gangers" when two women could play in a 'Comedy of Errors' and deceive their best friends...
...Thomas Hastings delivered the last of his very interesting lectures last evening in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The subject of his lecture was, "Detail, Ornament and Decoration...
Decoration and ornament, Mr. Hastings said, stand in the same position with regard to architecture that recreation does to work. They should accompany and relieve, but not over balance...
...Ornament must in the first place be well designed and placed, in order to accentuate the motive of a drawing, for this is the part it has to play in architecture. It may be divided into two parts: ornament which is purely architectural, and ornament which is simply intended to be decorative. To this last named division belong all mouldings, panels and bas-reliefs. The farther one advances in art, the more the feels that architecture which is not dependent upon decorative ornament is far more serious and satisfying than that which relies upon decoration to produce the intended effect...
Lecture. Detail, Ornament and Decoration. Mr. Thomas Hastings. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...