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 17
he examples, as the modeof division is much the same as in the natural leaf of the parsley. They are, as botanistswould describe, doubly compound—that is, having subordinate divisions or eyes in additionto the main ones, besides the ordinary divisions of the lobes. The parsley, however, haspointed… … Fig. 10. Fig. 12. obtusely-pointed or round-lobed leaves ; and that they do not in this respect follow theAcanthus mollis, which has sharp lobes, although not so much so as the Acanthus spinosus.In the example, Fig. 10, from the frieze in the arch of the Goldsmiths, at Rome, the leafforming the…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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