ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Architectural ornament

... natural and spirited action of the horse and rider. I thought of Goethe's remark, that a fine work of art will always have, at a distance, where its details cannot be discerned, a beautiful effect, as of architectural ornament, and that this excellence the groups of Raphael share with the antique. He would have been pleased with the beautiful balance of forms in this group, with the freedom with which light and air play in and out, the management of the whole ...

— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli