apitals arenever invented. They have grown up naturally inthe soil of tradition, represented by the modelsavailable for copying by the carver, by the visualimpressions that surround and impress him, or bysome reminiscence, maybe, as so often during theearly formative period in Western Europe,… … SANTA MARIA MADDALENA, PALERMO 176 ROMANESQUE CAPITALS recondite laws of unconscious artistic selectionobscurely at work in the dull minds of the un-skilled early carvers, and prompting one man to see,and hence carry away, a memory of mass (repre-senting first the acanthus leaves as mere knobs…
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