Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical and descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1914)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford, ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 268
et which repaid such scrutinyif subjected to it. Most of the ornament was of a kind whichno one would examine unless specially interested—as adraughtsman, for instance, might be ; but in some cases thebeautiful modelling induces even the casual visitor to put hisneck to inconvenience, as he gladly… … Fig. 224.—Plaster Prieze from Montacute House, Somerset. beauty. Pendants of more or less projection were anothermeans of adding variety and interest to the design (P^ig. 222),and they varied in size from a mere excrescence to an elaborateshaft, supported by figures half human, half foliage,…
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