In many cases, however, particularly in the arms of ecclesiastical sees and towns, the armorial bearings registered are simply the conventionalised heraldic representation of seal designs dating from a very much earlier period.
The rigid bar is none other than a conventionalised form of the actual torse, and is perhaps little more at variance with the reality than is our conventionalised method of depicting a lambrequin.
But in addition to these familiar figures there are numerous conventionalised designs.
These also, there is reason to believe, were originally representations of familiar objects, but, for convenience of rendering, the pictures have been supplanted by conventionalised designs.
Evidently there is much sophistication, not to say conventionalised affectation, in all this national attachment and allegiance.
The Oxonian scholar had seen enough of the conventionalised characterless 'good' to long for some sign of life and freedom, even though it must come as a touch of 'evil.
There are various conventionalisedtypes of the Dragon, but through them all one feature is constant,--the idealised serpent.
It was the mediaeval 'Morality' as diminished by centuries, and conventionalised among those whom the centuries mould in ways and for ends they know not.
This is the conventionalised theologic theory, as we find it in many examples, one of which is here shown (Fig.
Even in the much conventionalised representations of Hanuman, drawn for the poorest classes, there is often a quaint humour and observation, surprising to those who accept the common fallacy that the people of India are destitute of humour.
Lions, tigers, peacocks and swans are conventionalised according to a somewhat restricting but still consistent decorative canon with great propriety and admirable effect.
The boar in art occurs only in a form so highly conventionalised as to be almost unrecognisable, in representations of the Boar avatar.
The ways and means and the mechanical structure of industry are formulated in a conventionalised nomenclature, and the observed motions of this mechanical apparatus are then reduced to a normalised scheme of relations.
The scheme of life has been a scheme of personal aggression and subservience, partly in the naive form, partly conventionalised in a system of status.
The institutions of this cultural phase are conventionalised relations of force and fraud.
Truthful representations of figures and animals are seldom attempted,[37] but conventionalised symbols, suggested by and based on certain forms of animal or vegetable life, are occasionally used for ornamentation.
He has ornamented the sheath with conventionalised symbols, which were apparently suggested to him by leaves and branches of trees; and the suggestion of a flower can be noticed in the upper part of the handle.
The cursive writing known as Hieratic was an abridged and conventionalised form of the hieroglyphic.
They consist of hand-made beads or perforated shells arranged in various more or less conventionalised patterns on bark filaments, hemp, or deerskin strips or sinews, the ends of the belts being selvedged by sinews or hempen fibres.
Its possible derivation from the hieroglyphic has been indicated, but although it is a conventionalised form of pictograph, Dr.
The pictographs were conventionalised and reduced to their present form, but still remained ideograms supplemented by a limited number of phonetic determinants.
They are often mere conventionalised reductions of pictorial prototypes, comparable, for instance, to the characters of our alphabets, which are known to be degraded forms of earlier pictographs.
Elsewhere the spirit of concession to alien ideas is almost unknown, even flower and leaf being conventionalised on those architectural monuments of Islam which form the supreme expression of Mussulman genius.
Small birds drawn with five or six lines only, but quite characteristic of conventionalised Persian art, were extremely common, and were the most ingeniously clever of the lot.
The conventionalised peacock is represented in a few lines, such as one sees on the familiar Persian brass trays.
Each extremity of the outer surface is covered by a similarly conventionalised face-pattern on a smaller scale.
All these seem to be derived from the human form, although in many cases this can only be traced in the light of forms intermediate between the less and the more highly conventionalised (Pls.
This ignorance of the origin of the pattern is naturally true only of the more conventionalised examples, whether of the dog or other natural forms.
And in yet another case we saw that a Kayan house is decorated with conventionalised carvings of some animal whose species has been forgotten by the community.
They seem to be conventionalised derivatives from these animal forms.
A large proportion of them obviously are conventionalised derivatives from animal forms.
The designs reproduced in fretwork are in the main adaptations of some of those used in decorating surfaces, especially of the dog pattern; but they are always conventionalised in a high degree (see Pl.
This one clearly arises from the serial repetition of conventionalised heads of crocodiles.
Common to all the tribes of the Schingu stock is the employment of conventionalised representations of the mereschu.
I have already[103] described many of these, and so there is no need to again repeat what I have said, except to remind the reader that all these patterns are variations of serially repeated conventionalised heads of the frigate-bird.
My impression is that the carved designs have been derived mainly from tattooing, and possibly also partly from the dismemberment which so often befalls the conventionalised carvings of their ancestral figures.
However conventionalised it may become, the rosette is most constantly associated with the lotus in Egypt, the land of its birth.
There are, amongst some tribes, conventionalised forms, evidently; and it is of the utmost importance to ascertain to what extent these are used, and by what tribes they are understood.
They have usually arisen out ofconventionalised ideograms, which have been taken to represent sounds instead of things.
A slightly conventionalised lotus with two of its leaves (Fig.
Manners, we are told, are in part an elaboration of gesture, and in part they are symbolical and conventionalisedsurvivals representing former acts of dominance or of personal service or of personal contact.
Similarly, our bearing towards superiors, and in great measure towards equals, expresses a more or less conventionalised attitude of subservience.
In my contempt for vulgarised and conventionalised honour I had forgotten that for me there was such a reality as honour.
We criticised the current code, how muddled and conventionalised it had become, how modified by subterfuges and concealments and new necessities, and the increasing freedom of women.
The only ornament is a conventionalised hare carved in low relief on each of the five compartments that divide the sides.
An unmounted conical vase of common glass with conical neck, carved in low relief with three conventionalised four-legged monsters with tendril-like limbs and bodies (hgt.
On a cup of Geometrical form, with conventionalised plants and ground-ornaments of Geometrical character, are two deer fleeing from a lion, and there is also a pyxis with chariot-scenes obviously derived from Mycenaean vases.
Of course, there are flower-forms which are naturally geometric, which have conventionalised themselves.
Dining-rooms and chimney-pieces are often very appropriately decorated in this way; the words running on scrolls which are half unrolled and half hidden, and showing a conventionalised background of fruit and flowers.
The sacred tree tends to become conventionalised and is replaced by the trunk or post.
The plaques, which are about 6 to 7 inches in length, offer a large variety of types from the coarsest exaggeration of sexuality to highly conventionalised forms.
Percier, the artist, helped with the painting, but the throne itself was David's and shows his talent in the floating Victory of the back and the conventionalised wreaths of the seat.
The background is a field of conventionalised fleur-de-lis of so large a pattern as not to interfere with the details thrown against it.
The back is divided into three spaces by curving lines of gold cord, and in each of these spaces is worked one of the same conventionalised flower forms as occur on the boards, i.
In these the small figures ofconventionalised flowers sometimes have geometric shapes and are arranged in diagonal or perpendicular rows.
But if the rug is more modern, in its field of uniform colour may be represented a central medallion covered with delicate tracings enriched by bright-coloured conventionalised flowers.
It is not unusual to see single or double vines with conventionalised flowers; and though the drawing is mechanical, the relationship to Persian art is apparent.
And not infrequently the formal treatment shows a European influence, as when all semblance of leaf and flower has disappeared in the extremely conventionalised forms that are placed with set regularity in the field.
The main stripe is geometric and in the guard stripes are running latch-hooks or the reciprocal trefoil, though occasionally they are replaced by some conventionalised vine or ribbon pattern.
They are invariably arranged in lines parallel to the ends of the rugs, and this horizontal effect is sometimes accentuated by inserting between each row narrow bands composed of conventionalised leaves.
In a great many of these rugs the three-leaf clover is found in some part of the field; and in the band of pile that extends beyond the border at one end are usually small conventionalised bushes with white and yellow flowers.
But in other modern rugs it is seldom used as a motive, and is so conventionalised as often to escape notice.
In others, still very old, appeared forms of conventionalised dragons, which again were replaced by simple scrolls and these by ornate floral forms.
The old conventionalisedart of Egypt was cast aside, and an attempt was made to imitate nature, exactly, even to the verge of caricature.
Such at least was the case with the statuary of the Old Empire, before the conventionalised art of a later day had placed restrictions on the sculptor and stifled his originality.
Rudimentary and conventionalised forms of the sacred tree.
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