Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 222
capitals had been formed. The stones for the capitalswere doubtless quarried, and roughly blocked out quite as theyalways had been: but after they had been placed in position theByzantine artist set to work to finish the execution in a mannerpeculiarly his own. At Hagios Ioannos the artist had… … III. 69. — Capital from S. \ itale, Ravenna BYZANTINE CAPITALS with, however, a certain tendency towards stringiness that waswholly new and Byzantine (111. 67). In the later examplesthese leaves were merely treated with perforations instead ofwith carving; or sometimes they were twisted in whorls…
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