Examples of English medieval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress (1874)
Colling, James Kellaway · London, The author [etc.] · leaf 90
Fig. 78. from the rood-screen (now removed tothe west end) at Attleborough Church,Norfolk. The wooden roofs of the Perpendi-cular period were sometimes richly deco-rated in colour, and the sacred monogram,alternating with the monogram of the holyVirgin, was of frequent occurrence. Theywere often… … Fig. 79. from Sail Church, COLOURED DECORATION. 71 The general rules, observed by the decorator in Mediaeval painting, appear to have beenfew, and those were very simple. The use of colour was generally based upon the Mosaicprinciple, that is, divided into numerous small portions, positive colour…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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