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    This document provides an overview of the use of animal forms in ornamental design, known as the "fauna of ornament". It notes that while plant forms are more extensively used, animal forms also have symbolic and ornamental significance. The most commonly used animal forms are described as the lion, tiger, panther, ox, horse, goat, dolphin, and eagle. Fabulous hybrid animals like the griffin and double-headed eagle are also discussed. The lion is highlighted as holding the highest rank due to its strength, courage, and nobility, making it a frequent motif across cultures throughout history.

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    This document provides an overview of the use of animal forms in ornamental design, known as the "fauna of ornament". It notes that while plant forms are more extensively used, animal forms also have symbolic and ornamental significance. The most commonly used animal forms are described as the lion, tiger, panther, ox, horse, goat, dolphin, and eagle. Fabulous hybrid animals like the griffin and double-headed eagle are also discussed. The lion is highlighted as holding the highest rank due to its strength, courage, and nobility, making it a frequent motif across cultures throughout history.

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    This document provides an overview of the use of animal forms in ornamental design, known as the "fauna of ornament". It notes that while plant forms are more extensively used, animal forms also have symbolic and ornamental significance. The most commonly used animal forms are described as the lion, tiger, panther, ox, horse, goat, dolphin, and eagle. Fabulous hybrid animals like the griffin and double-headed eagle are also discussed. The lion is highlighted as holding the highest rank due to its strength, courage, and nobility, making it a frequent motif across cultures throughout history.

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    This document provides an overview of the use of animal forms in ornamental design, known as the "fauna of ornament". It notes that while plant forms are more extensively used, animal forms also have symbolic and ornamental significance. The most commonly used animal forms are described as the lion, tiger, panther, ox, horse, goat, dolphin, and eagle. Fabulous hybrid animals like the griffin and double-headed eagle are also discussed. The lion is highlighted as holding the highest rank due to its strength, courage, and nobility, making it a frequent motif across cultures throughout history.

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    The Festoou.

    Animal Oi'gauisma, 63
    Plate 40. The Leaf Festoon, &c.
    1. Festoon between skulls, Roman.
    2. Festoon, tomb of Beatrice and Lavinia Ponzetti, Sta. Maria della
    Pace, Rome, Renascence, by Baldassare Pervizzi.
    3. Festoon, Louis XVI. style.
    4. Festoon, Modern, Paris, (Raguenet).
    b. Animal Organisms (The Fauna
    of
    Ornament).
    By the side of the Flora, stand the Fauna of ornament. The
    use of Animals, in natural or idealised forms, is considerable;
    but, compared with that of Plant-forms, it is less extensive. The
    reason of this is obvious: that greater difficulties stood in the way
    of the adaptation of animal forms than in the use of plant motives.
    The absence of Animals in the Mahometan styles is due to religious
    maxims which forbade or limited the use of representations of living
    Beings.
    Following the same direction as was taken in the Flora, we shall
    find that the principal representations from the Fauna are not, as
    might be supposed, those of domestic animals such as the horse, the
    dog and the like, but that the selection was guided first by the sym-
    bolic character, and next by the ornamental possibilities of each.
    If we disregard the more accidental naturalistic use of animals,
    such as enliven scroll ornaments in the shape of butterflies, birds,
    reptiles, and other animals, and confine our attention to those inde-
    pendent forms of animal ornament which have become typical; they
    will be found to diminish to a comparatively small number, the most
    important of which will here be treated in detail. Of the mammalia
    we have first to mention the Lion, Tiger and Panther, the Ox, the
    Horse, and the Goat; the Delphin also finds a place. The Eagle
    is the only bird which has been generally used. Then come the
    fantastic forms of fabulous animals: the Griffin, the double headed
    Eagle, &c.
    The Lion. (Plates 41

    44.)
    The Lion (Fells leo) holds the first rank in ornamental fauna.
    His strength, bis courage, and his nobility, have assured him from the
    earliest times the Title of "King of Beasts". His majestic stature, his
    compact, proportionate build, his striking muscles, offer grateful pro-
    blems to art. Lying, walking, sitting, fighting, conquering or con-
    quered, he is an often-used motive.
    Lion scenes and lion hunts are common subjects on the palaces
    of the Assyrian kings. Characteristic, natural movements, and a

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