LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Patterns & Shapes

Patterns & Shapes

Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
From the New York Public Library.
Rhode Island School of Design: Loeb Symmetry Portfolio
"164 geometric silkscreens produced by Loeb and his teaching assistant, artist Holly Alderman....presents all infinite tessellating symmetry systems possible in the plane." Available through JSTOR.
Rhode Island School of Design: Nature Forms
A collection of micro and macro imagery describing forms in nature including landforms, minerals, aquatic and terrestrial animal and plant life, insects, cellular structures and skeletal segments from the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab. Available through JSTOR.

Owen Jones. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra: vol. 1, pl. 42, Hall of the Two Sisters. 1842. Luna Collection. Public Domain.