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Delphi (1920)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Richards, G. C. (George Chatterton), 1867-1951 · London : Gyldendal · leaf 264

An illustration from Delphi, 1920, leaf 264
(fig. 117). By leaving the old stone crownof spirals and palmettes, one got a good kernel on which totie the acanthus bouquet. Where the grave is adorned bya broader stele, leaves are fastened to its wall, as theEgyptians tied their lotus-bouquets to walls. From thevase-paintings of the fifth… … Fig. 115.—From an Atticlekythos. 250 THE COLUMN OF THE DANCING WOMEN spiral and palmette motives, while the stone spirals at thesides/as it were, screw them tight. In these later picturesboth form and colour proclaim that the material is stone,and thus a new style has come into being (fig. ii8).…

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