Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 124
enaissance followed the Romanesque and Gothic periods,and bore the imprint of the years of Mediaval influence. The Classic period was full of floral and animal forms—fruittied in bunches with leaves and flowers, festoons with flowingribbons, rosettes, candelabras, skulls of sacrificial animals,… … ROMANESQUE angel faces. The acanthus was the most popular of all the orna-mental plant designs ; introduced by the Greeks, it recurs againand again in all subsequent periods. Sometimes it has broad,blunt leaves, sometimes pointed. Centaurs showing the fore part of a man and the hind partof a horse…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament · Interior decoration
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