enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: ornament using a picture

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_(art)

    Ornament (art) Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey ( Wilhering, Austria ), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco. In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in ...

  3. Palmette - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmette

    Etruscan architectural plaque with palmettes, from late 4th century BC, painted terracotta, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. It has a far-reaching history, originating in ancient Egypt with a ...

  4. Islamic ornament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_ornament

    Islamic ornament is the use of decorative forms and patterns in Islamic art and Islamic architecture. Its elements can be broadly divided into the arabesque , using curving plant-based elements, geometric patterns with straight lines or regular curves, and calligraphy , consisting of religious texts with stylized appearance, used both ...

  5. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_geometric_patterns

    Islamic geometric patterns are derived from simpler designs used in earlier cultures: Greek, Roman, and Sasanian. They are one of three forms of Islamic decoration, the others being the arabesque based on curving and branching plant forms, and Islamic calligraphy; all three are frequently used together. [1] [2] From the 9th century onward, a ...

  6. Scroll (art) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(art)

    The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached.

  7. Ornamental plant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornamental_plant

    Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty [1] but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that improve on the original species in qualities such as color, shape, scent, and long-lasting blooms.