Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 192
in Saxon work,and it became such a favourite form that oneis tempted to consider it a Saxon contributionto European art. The quatrefoil was a crosswith rounded ends, and the form was used inearly Christian fonts. It first appears in thewest on the coins of Offa, 757-96. It occursas a frame for… … Fig. 39. 190 ARCHITECTURE into building, for windows and loopholes ofthis form appear in the illuminations of MSS.,and on the Bayeux tapestry, which is almostcertainly an English work (fig. 39). The trefoil arch also makes an early andprominent appearance in Anglo-Saxon works.It occurs on the…
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