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 61
t in themselves, and the leaves are solarge and important that the branching becomes quite secondary, and very little noticed.The foliage is very bold and effective, and the surface is wrought into good light and shade,without being so elaborate or intricate as to destroy the outline of the leaves… … Fig 46. for a figure, formed of openwork Vine foliage, coming in the angle between two buttresses,at the side of the monument, which is shewn by wood-cut, Fig. 46. The foliage from the back of the altar at BeverleyMinster, of which Plates 52 and 53 give examples, isas excellent as anything that can…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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