Glossary
- A.W.N. Pugin
- abbey
- Aberlemno Cross
- Aboo-Simbel
- Abu Simbel
- acanthus
- acknowledgment
- Admiral Chabot
- Adolphe Didron
- Aesthetic movement
- Agostino Busti
- aigrette
- Ajanta cave paintings
- Albert Durer
- Albert Warren
- Alexander “Greek” Thomson
- Alfred Bell
- Alfred Kuyu Bell
- Alhambra
- Alhambra Palace, London
- Alhambra spectacle pattern
- Ancyra
- Andrea Contucci
- Andrea Mantegna
- Andrea Pisano
- Andrea Sansovino
- Angers Cathedral
- Anglo-Saxons
- animals
- Antique revival
- Antony Toto
- Aphrodisias
- appreciation
- Arab
- Arab influence
- arabesques
- Arabian
- Arabian influences
- Arabian moldings
- Arabian mosaic
- Arabian natural forms
- Arabian ornament
- Arabian plaster ornament
- Arabian Romanesque style
- arch
- architecture
- armor
- Arneaud Demole
- Art Deco
- artists
- Arts and Crafts Movement
- Assyrian
- Assyrian carving
- Assyrian embroidery
- Assyrian inscriptions
- Assyrian lotus
- Assyrian moldings
- Assyrian natural forms
- Assyrian ornament
- Assyrian trees
- atelier Monvearni
- Auch Cathedral
- Austen Layard
- Australasia peoples
- Austria Hallsratt
- Baccio Bandinelli
- Baccio Pintelli
- background
- Baldassare Peruzzi
- Bambaja
- bark cloth
- Baroque
- Barthélemy Prieur
- Bashikhah
- Basilica of the Bethlehem
- bay leaves
- Bayeux Cathedral
- Beauvais
- Benedetto da Majano
- Benedetto da Rovezzano
- Benihassan
- Benozzo Gozzoli
- Benvenuto Cellini
- Bernard Jansen
- Bernardo Rossellini
- Bertrand de Michael Angelo Meynal
- Bexleyheath Red House
- Bi Suroun
- Biban el Moluk
- Bibiena
- Bible of St. Denis
- blackberry
- Boccaccio
- Book of Kells
- books
- bosses
- Bourges Cathedral
- Bramante
- Brambilla
- brescia
- Brighton Royal Pavilion
- British empire
- British interest
- British interest in Persian ornament
- British Museum
- Buddhism
- Burgos
- Burma
- Burmese ornament
- Byzantine
- Byzantine Germany
- Byzantine influence
- Byzantine influence in Greece
- Byzantine mosaic
- Byzantine Natural forms
- Byzantine ornament
- Byzantine ornament influences
- Byzantine ornament mosaic
- Byzantine ornament Turkish rule
- Byzantium
- Byzantium Roman ornament
- C.J. Richardson
- Cairean
- Cairean ornament
- Cairo
- Cairo mosques
- Caius College Cambridge
- calendar
- Camden Society
- candelabri
- Canterbury Cathedral
- Captain James Cook
- Cardinal d’ Amboise
- Cardinal John Newman
- Caria
- Carlo Maderno
- Carmelite church Nantes
- carpets
- carving
- carving secondary colors
- Castel Durante Sculpture
- Cathedral Sta. Maria della Fiore
- Caves of Ajunta
- ceilings
- Celtic
- Celtic carving
- Celtic interlaced patterns
- Celtic manuscripts
- Celtic natural forms
- Celtic ornament
- ceramics
- Chalons-sur-Marne Notre Dame
- Charles Aubert
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Townley
- Charles VIII
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chateau de Gaillon
- chestnut leaf
- Chinese
- Chinese cloth
- Chinese natural forms
- Chinese ornament
- Chinese pottery
- Chinese silks
- Chinese vases
- Chinese weaving
- Chinoiserie
- Chintz
- Chintz architecture
- Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
- Christianity Britain
- Christopher Dresser
- chromolithography
- church building
- church building architecture
- Church of Ara Coeli
- Church of Assisi
- Church of St. John Gmund
- Church of St. Maclou
- churches
- Cimabue
- Cino da Pistoia
- Cinqecento ornament
- Cinquecento
- Clarkia
- Classical revival
- Claude Audran
- Claude Gillot
- Claudius Rich
- Cliveden in Buckinghamshire
- cloth
- Colin Castille
- color
- colors
- columns
- commissions
- comparisons
- Constantinople
- Constantinople mosques
- Constructive ornament
- contrast
- contributor
- contributors
- convolvulus
- Corinthian capitals
- Crystal Palace
- curves
- daffodil
- damascene work
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Darius I
- David Roberts
- De Neufforge
- decline in art
- decorative ornament
- Deerhurst church
- demontreuil
- diapers
- Digby Wyatt
- Dilettanti Society
- disappearance
- Don Ignacio Montilla
- Donatello
- Doric style
- Durbar Court
- Early English
- Early English carving
- Early English moldings
- Early English ornament
- East India Company
- Edfu
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Egyptian
- Egyptian influence Central African art
- Egyptian inscriptions
- Egyptian lotus
- Egyptian natural forms
- Egyptian ornament
- Egyptian ornament pillars
- Egyptian ornament symbolism
- Egyptian revival
- Egyptian tombs
- Egyptian trees
- Egyptian weaving
- Elgin Marbles
- Elizabeth embroidery
- Elizabethan
- Elizabethan architecture
- Elizabethan carving
- Elizabethan cloth
- Elizabethan influence
- Elizabethan interlaced patterns
- Elizabethan natural forms
- Elizabethan ornament
- Elizabethan period
- Elizabethan style
- Elizabethan style architecture
- Elizabethan style embroidery
- embroidery
- Empire style
- enameled bricks
- enameled earthenware
- enamels
- encaustic
- encaustic tiles
- English design
- engraving
- Enguerand Le Prince
- enseigne
- Etruscan
- Etruscan vases
- Etruscans
- Eugène Delacroix
- European discoveries Assyrian ornament
- eyes
- fabric
- fabrics
- faience
- fay
- Fayoum
- fear
- Federigo Zucchero
- Ferdinando
- fertility gods
- fig leaves
- Fiji Islands
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- first printed books
- Flandin and Coste
- Florence
- flowers
- Fontainebleau
- Fontainebleau School
- Forum of Trajan
- Fra Giocondo
- France
- Francesco Borromini
- Francesco Ubertini
- Francis Bedford
- Francis I
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- free
- French Renaissance
- French Renaissance carving
- fret
- fret Yucatan
- Friendly Islands
- from nature
- furniture
- gardening
- general principles
- Genoa
- geometrical patterns
- Gerard Chrismas
- Germain Pilon
- Germany
- Giacomo Lanfranco
- Giacopo Sansovino
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Giorgio Vasari
- Giotto
- Giovanni Bartolini
- Giovanni Belzoni
- Giovanni da Udine
- Giuliano da Soiss
- Giulio Clovio
- Giulio Romano
- Giza
- glass
- glazed pottery
- Gleanings from the Great Exhibition
- Godfrey Sykes
- Gods
- Gothic ornament
- Gothic revival
- Gothic revival architecture
- Gothic revival style
- Gothic Revival style diapers
- Gottfried Semper
- Gouthier
- Great Exhibition
- Great Exhibition architecture
- Great Exhibition Indian ornament
- Greece
- Greece War of Independence
- Greek
- Greek carving
- Greek influence
- Greek influence on Roman ornament
- Greek interlaced patterns
- Greek moldings
- Greek ornament
- Greek portrait
- Greek revival style
- Greek trees
- Greek vases
- Greek wave ornament
- grisaille
- grotesques
- grotto work
- grounds
- Gubbian ware
- Guidobaldo II
- Guillaume Senault
- Guillaume Zahn
- H. Fielding
- Hans Holbein
- Hardwick Hall
- harebell
- harmony
- Hawara
- hawthorn
- Heilsbronn Chapel
- Henry II
- Henry Noel Humphreys
- Henry VII
- Henry VIII
- Herbert Minton
- Herculaneum
- hieroglyphics
- Hindoo
- Hindoo architecture
- Hindoo moldings
- Hindoo ornament
- Holland
- holly leaves
- Holy Gospels
- Home Illuminated Diary and Calendar
- honeysuckle
- Hong Kong
- hookahs
- Hôtel de Cluny
- hypnerotomachia
- illumination
- illuminations
- illustrated books
- imitations
- India
- Indian
- Indian cloth
- Indian designs
- Indian furniture
- Indian metalwork
- Indian ornament
- Indian ornament British artists
- Indian ornament British interests
- Indian ornament embroidery
- Indian ornament exhibition
- Indian ornament fabrics
- Indian ornament in the Great Exhibition
- Indian ornament influences
- Indian ornament lacquerware
- Indian ornament vases
- influence on Arabs
- influence on Jones
- influence on Owen Jones
- influences
- Inigo Jones
- inter
- interlaced patterns
- Ireland interlaced patterns
- iris
- iron
- Ironmongers’ Company
- Islam
- Ispahan
- Istakhr
- Italia
- Italian
- Italian ornament
- Italian plaster ornament
- Italian Renaissance carving
- Italy
- ivy
- Iznik tiles
- J. B. Passeri
- J. Bonomi
- J. F. Lewis
- J. R. Clayton
- J.B. Waring
- J.O. Westwood
- Jacob Burckhardt
- Jacopo de Tatti
- Jacopo della Quercia
- Jacopo Sansovino
- James “Athenian” Stuart
- James I
- James Morier
- James Whistler
- James William Wild
- Jane Loudun
- Jean and Susanna Courr
- Jean Berain
- Jean Champollion
- Jean Cousin
- Jean Goujon
- Jean K. Juste
- Jean Texier
- Jean-Antoine Warreau
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Johann Ramsauer
- John Bentley
- John Nash
- John of Bologna
- John of Padua
- John Ruskin
- John Shaw
- Jones
- Jones’s books on the medieval
- Jones’s designs
- Jones’s printing books
- Jones’s study architecture
- Joseph Bonomi
- Joseph Paxron
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Jules Goury
- Kangovar
- Karl Lepsius
- Karl Richard Lepsius
- Karnac
- Kashmir shawls
- Kelim embroidery
- Kelmscott Press
- Kensington Palace Gardens
- Khorsabad
- Koom-Ombos
- Koran
- Kouyunjik
- Kuyunjik
- La Tène
- laburnum leaves
- lacquerware
- lacquerwork
- ladies’ smock
- laurel leaves
- Le Pautre
- leaves
- leaves and flowers
- Leeds flax mill
- Leonard Limousin
- Lewis Vulliamy
- Limoges
- Lincoln Cathedral
- Lindisfarne Gospel
- Lombardi
- London Liberty’s
- London Reform Club
- London Travellers’ Club
- longleat
- Lord Byron
- Lord Frederic Leighton
- Lorenzo Bernini
- Lorenzo Ghiberti
- lotus
- Louis Sullivan
- Louis XII
- Louis XII monument
- Louis XIV
- Louis XV
- Louis XVI
- Louvre
- lozenge diapers
- lozenge-shaped
- ltalian Renaissance
- ltaly
- Luca della Robbia
- Lucas De Heere
- Lucca
- Luxor
- M. D. Pape
- M. Deville
- M. Hittorff
- Mac Durnan Gospels
- Magister Jacobus
- majolica
- majolica cerquate
- majolica Gruppi
- majolica porcelain
- majolica quartieri
- majolica tratti
- majolica trophies
- majolica vases
- Majorca
- mallow
- Mamluk era
- Mamluk period
- Mamluk period Arabian ornament
- Mannerist artists
- Mantua
- manuscripts
- maple leaves
- Marc Solon
- Marlborough House ·
- Marquese Ferdinando d’ Aragona
- marquetry
- Martinengo Tomb
- Matteo Civitale
- Matthew Arnold
- medeival encaustic tiles
- medieval
- medieval church building ornament
- medieval diapers
- medieval Gothic revival
- medieval interlaced patterns
- medieval ornament
- medieval stained glass
- medieval tiles
- Mehmed II
- Mesopotamia
- Mexican
- Mexican pottery
- Michael Angelo
- Michel Colombe
- Milan
- Mino de Fiesole
- Mohammedanism
- Monteale Cathedral
- Moorish
- Moorish inscriptions
- Moorish ornament
- Moorish style
- Moresque
- Moresque interlaced patterns
- Moresque mosaic
- Moresque ornament
- Moresque ornament Alhambra
- Moresque ornament geometric forms
- Moresque ornament influence on Junes
- Moresque ornament influences
- Moresque ornament interlaced patterns
- Moresque plaster ornament
- mosaic
- mosaics
- Mosque Ibn Tulun
- Mosque of El Barkookeyeh
- Mosque of En Nasireeyeh
- Mosque of Kalaoon
- Mosque of lbn Tulun
- Mosque of lbn Tulun Arabian ornament
- Mosque of Tooloon
- mosques
- motion picture theaters
- Mount Athos
- mouse-ear
- Mt. Catherwood
- Mt. Penrose
- Mt. Stubbs
- Muhammad Ill
- mummies
- murals
- Murano
- Museum of Manufactures
- Museum of Ornamental Art
- Myanmar
- Narcissus
- nativity
- natural forms
- natural forms Leo X
- Neo-Byzantine style
- Neoclassical movement
- Neo-Gothic style
- Netherlands
- New Guinea
- new styles
- New Zealand
- Nicholas Jenson
- Nicholas Lyzarde
- Nicholas Modena
- Nicholas Reven
- Nicholas Stone
- Nicola Pisano
- Nimroud
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- noble savage
- Northumberland House
- Nubia
- oak leaves
- Oceanic
- Oceanic art
- Oceanic art carving
- Oceanic art cloth
- onion
- Opium Wars
- Orazio Fontana
- Oriental practice
- Orientalists
- Orientalists Arabian ornament
- Oscar Wilde
- Oswald Brierly
- ottomans
- Owen Jones
- Owen Jones and the Alhambra
- Owen Jones background
- Owen Jones publications
- Owen Jones Sydenham exhibitions
- Owen Jones’s role in the Great Exhibition
- Oxford Movement
- Oxford Movement churches
- Pacific Islanders cloth
- Paddington station
- painted enamels
- paisley pattern
- Palace of Luxembourg
- Palace of Westminster
- Palaoegraphia Sacra Pictoria
- Palazzo dei Te Mantua
- Palazzo Ducale Mantua
- Paléographie Universelle
- Palladian style
- Pannartz
- papyrus
- Parthenon
- Passion
- Patent laws
- Paul-Emile Botta
- Pavia Certosa
- Penicaud
- periwinkle
- Persepolis Assyrian ornament
- Persian
- Persian Carpets
- Persian designs
- Persian designs cloth
- Persian ornament
- Persian ornament ottomans
- Persian ornament rugs and carpets
- Persian ornament tiles
- Persian Pattern book
- Persian tiles
- Perugia
- Pesaro
- Peter Vischer
- Petrarch
- Philae
- Piazza del Mercato Siena
- Piccolpasso
- Pict
- Pictish
- Pictish carving
- Picts
- Pierre Bontemps
- Pierre Courtey
- Pierre Francheville
- Pierre Raymond
- Pierro Perugino
- piers
- Pietro Ubaldini
- pillars
- Pinturicchio
- plaster ornament
- plates
- pointed arch
- pointed style
- Polynesian artifacts
- Pompeian mosaic
- Pompeian ornament
- Pompeii
- Pope Clement VII
- Pope Julius II
- Pope Lepsius
- Pope Paul Ill
- pottery
- Pre-Raphaelites
- primary colors
- Primaticcio
- priming
- primrose
- Prince Albert
- printing
- Professor Varny
- proportion
- Qajar dynasty
- Raffaelle
- Rahim Deccani
- ram
- Ram Raz
- ransom
- Raphael
- Ravello Duomo
- Ravenna
- Ravenna San Vitale
- reisner
- Renaissance
- Renaissance jewelry
- Renaissance Naples
- Renaissance ornament
- Renaissance pottery
- representation
- representational ornament
- revival
- Revival style
- Robert Adam
- Robert and Bernard Adams
- Robert Hay
- rocaille
- Rococo
- Rococo style
- Roger of Bruges
- Roman
- Roman carving
- Roman ornament
- Roman ornament influence on Arabs
- Roman ornament Pompeii
- Roman ornament revival
- Romanesque
- Romanesque period
- Romanesque style
- Romantic movement
- Rome
- rope ornament
- roses
- Rosetta Stone
- Rosso
- Rouen Cathedral
- Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyam
- rugs and carpets
- Rundbogenstil
- Runic inscriptions
- Saddlers’ Company
- Safavid period
- Sainte Chapelle Vincennes
- Sakhara
- Samuel Pepys Cockerell
- San Gallo
- San Giovanni Battista
- San Giovanni Laterano Rome
- San Lorenzo Fuori Rome
- San Marco
- San Michele di Murano
- San Miniato
- San Miniato Florence
- San Pietro dei Casinensi
- Sandwich Islands
- Sant’ Agostino Rome
- Sant’ Ambrogia Milan
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo Venice
- Saracenic ornament
- Sassanian ornament
- Sassanians
- savage ornament
- savage tribes
- Scala dei Giganti
- Scandinavia
- School of Fontainebleau
- Schwäbisch Hall
- Scotland
- sculpture
- sculpture scrollwork
- Seco Strand
- Sedgfield
- Serlio
- Sezincote
- Shahnama (Book of Kings)
- Sicily
- Signor Abbate
- Sir Baldwin Spencer
- Sir Charles Barry
- Sir Edward Burne-Jones
- Sir George Gilbert Scott
- Sir Henry Cole
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Sir Horatio Pallavicini
- Sir John J Soane
- Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
- Sir Richard Burton
- Sir Richard Burton Arabian ornament
- Sir William Hamilton
- Smyrna
- Society of Arts lectures
- Sohrab and Rustum
- Soissons Cathedral
- Soliman I
- Somerset House
- Soprabiancomajolica
- South Kensington Museum
- Southwell church Spain
- Spain
- Speedwell
- square
- square diapers
- St. Aethelwold Monastery
- St. Andrew’s cross
- St. Chad Gospels
- St. Cunibert
- St. Denis
- St. Denis Paris
- St. Gall manuscripts
- St. Gervais
- St. Gervais Paris
- St. Mark’s Venice
- St. Mary’s Church Oxford
- St. Michael’s Church
- St. Ouen
- St. Sebald Saxony
- Sta. Maria del Miracoli Venice
- Sta. Maria del Popolo Rome
- Sta. Maria Maggiore Rome
- Sta. Sofia Constantinople
- stained glass
- stamped designs
- stars
- statue of Surga
- Stefano da Bergamo
- stencils
- strapwork
- strawberry tree
- stucco work
- Suffolk Boreham church
- Suleyman the Magnificent
- Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad
- Sultan Barquq
- sun god Surya
- sun gods
- surface modeling
- surface-modeling
- Sweynheim
- Sydenham exhibitions
- symbolism
- Syria representational ornament
- T. Hayter Lewis
- T. T. Bury
- Taddeo Zuccaro
- Tahiti
- Tak-i-Bostan
- Tak-i-Ghero
- tapestries
- tapestry
- tattooing
- temple of
- temples
- tertiary colors
- The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages
- theater of Patara
- Thebes
- Thomas and William Daniell
- Thomas Bruce
- Thomas Hope
- three graces
- tiles
- Tomb of Soliman I
- tombs
- Tooloon
- Torrigiano
- trees
- Trentham Hall
- Troyes Cathedral
- trumpet pattern
- Tulun
- Turkish
- Turkish ornament
- Turkish rule
- Tuscan Bible
- vases
- Vatican
- Venetian School
- Veneto-Byzantine style
- Venice
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Villa Cronkhill
- Villa Madama
- Villa Medici
- vine leaves
- Vitruvius volute
- W. R. Tymms
- war clubs
- Warmington church
- Washington Irving
- weapons
- weaving
- Wells Cathedral
- Westminster Abbey
- Westminster Cathedral
- white bryony leaves
- white lily
- Whitehall Palace
- Wilhelm Salzenberg
- William Butterfield
- William De Morgan
- William Hodges
- William Holman Hunt
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- William Morris
- William Morris cloth
- yew
- York Cathedral
- Yusuf I
- z pattern
- Zieglers of Manchester
Source Citation
Jones, Inigo. The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1856, republish 2016.
Key Facts
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