RIBA Architecture Image Library
Subject/theme: ornament
RIBA6638 Acropolis, Athens: conjectural coloured decoration on the temples from the Report of the Elgin Marbles Committee, read by W. R. Hamilton at the RIBA on 24 July 1837
RIBA10085 Analysis of beauty
RIBA67198 6 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London: designs for the painted decoration of the staircase window
RIBA67199 6 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London: designs for the painted decoration of the staircase window
RIBA67200 6 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London: designs for the painted decoration of the staircase window
RIBA67201 6 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London: designs for the painted decoration of the staircase window
RIBA93590 Book cover from the Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones
RIBA93604 Assyrian (Nineveh) and Persian ornament no. 1: details of painted decoration from sculpture
RIBA93605 Assyrian (Nineveh) and Persian ornament no. 2: examples of decoration from a variety of sources from clothing to bricks
RIBA93606 Assyrian (Nineveh) and Persian ornament no. 3: various architectural details
RIBA93620 Byzantine ornament no. 1: carved decoration from various buildiings in Europe
RIBA93621 Byzantine ornament no. 2: decorative patterns from mosaics, marble pavements and illuminated manuscripts
RIBA93622 Byzantine ornament no. 3: decorative mosaics from Italian churches
RIBA93623 Arabian ornament no. 1: details of architraves and soffits from the windows in the Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Ibn Tooloon), Cairo
RIBA93624 Arabian ornament no. 2: architectural details from the mosques of Kalaoon, Tooloon and En Nasireeyeh
RIBA93625 Arabian ornament no. 3: decorative details from various mosques
RIBA93626 Arabian ornament no. 4: decorative patterns from a copy of the Koran in the Mosque of the Sultan Barquq, Cairo
RIBA93627 Arabian ornament no. 5: details of mosaic floors and walls from a number of private houses and mosques in Cairo
RIBA100826 A) Palace of Maximian, Piazza Armerina; B) Palace of Diocletian, Spalato: plans
RIBA100829 Baths of Caracalla, Rome: plans and perspectives
RIBA100830 Basilica of Trajan: Rome A); Basilica of Constantine, Rome B-E); Basilica of Constantine, Trier (F-G): interior perspectives, plans, sections and elevation
RIBA100835 Alternative Early Church Plans: A) Lateran Baptistery, Rome; B) Baptistery, Milan; C) Baptistery, Nocera; D) Santa Constanza, Rome; E) San Stefano Rotondo, Rome; F) San Lorenzo, Milan; G) Holy Apostles, Milan; H) Cathedral, Bosra; J) St. Simeon Stylites, from the Byzantine Empire
RIBA105369 Altar cross and candlesticks
RIBA125946 An elaborate engraved cartouche, being the engraved title page of a book of cartouches