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 16
the Pantheon, are the three most beautiful capitals left us.It will be seen whether Desgodetz was correct in saying they were all composed of * See the natural leaf given in Art Foliage. t Treatise on Civil Architecture, by Sir William Chambers. t The Autobiography of an Octogenarian Architect, by… … Fig. 5. the South Kensington Museum — or with obtuse points, as given in Mr. Taylorswork. In those from the Dioscuri, or, as we have always known it, Jupiter Stator,Fig. 6, the points have somewhat of an ogee shape, with a centre rib to each lobe. Theseleaves Mr. Taylor says are the most elegant,…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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