Examples of English mediaeval 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 14
of foliage, growing with sharp-pointed divided lobes,such as the Acanthus spinosus and the Thistle, joined to a curved head like the leaf of theSea Holly; but they did not follow any one natural type at all closely. What I wishparticularly to point out is, that they invariably represented sharp,… … into a slight V section, as shewn in Fig. 2, from a Stele at Athens, apparently of very earlyworkmanship. Fig. 3 is another example from a Stele in the Elgin Collection at the * I referred only to the Acanthus mollis, in Art Foliage, which is the Roman type. I have been very properlycorrected in…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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