Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 53
enlaboriously applied to thehard granite, has strivento produce a volute; thisrude sculpture, like thecrudest patois, is a deriva-tion from the Latin. The men of the twelfthcenturv sought to achievedecorative richness by theaccumulation of details;they were craftsmen whonever spared their pains.… … Fll.. flf). — PORfH OF THE (HIRCH OFSMNT-TROPHIMK, AT ARl.ES. (PltOlO. SeUrdfitl t MONASTIC OR ROMANESQUE ART in violent action, theforms are curved and in-terlaced in such a manneras to leave no emptyspaces. In the porches andfagades of the churchesof Saintonge and Poitou,the decorative…
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