came up with every doodle and ornament in Cathedrals, Roman architecture, Royal European palaces, etc.?
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there’s a million tiny parts in each of a million buildings, so the question you’re asking has a trillion different answers. There’s info about how different architectural styles evolved on the wiki pages of those styles, though
The same way people do now.
In Margalit Fox’s book *The Riddle of the Labyrinth*, which is about the decipherment of Linear B, there are some pictures of ancient clay tablets. One of them includes a doodle that the scribe had made while the guys in charge were presumably talking about nothing important that he was supposed to write down.
That doodle looks like the kind I do on paper during boring meetings. If he had been transported across 3000 years of time and dropped in a meeting, he wouldn’t understand what we were saying, he’d have no idea about electric lights and laptops, but when he saw me doodling in the margins he would know exactly what I was doing and why I was doing it. Because he did the same thing at his meetings. 3000 years, nothing has changed, people are still people.
Are you asking how artists came up with their art?