vaultiug of portals for the same use. As castel-lated edifices became more magnificent, these be-came ornamental works over the principal gates.Sculpture, however rude, was admitted at an earlyperiod, either over the machicolation of the gates,or in the grotesque figures used as water-spouts.… … with carved work, as the heads of oxen, vessels,and other articles used in sacrifices. M.iSTic. A resin produced by making incisionsin the Pistacia Lentiseus, a tree cultivated in theLevant, and chiefly in the island of Chios. Itcomes to us in yellow, brittle, transparent rounded tears, which…
Design · Decoration and ornament · Art
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
