Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 399
badge of episcopaldignity since the earliest period of the Middle Ages. In the West: ithad the shape of a crutch up to the 12th century; and it has re-tained this form in the East up the present day (fig. 1). Afterwardsthe upper end was curved spirally. The curved end and the staffitself are… … The Crucifix. Meyer, Handbook of Ornament. Plate 224,25 386 The Crozier, and the Monstrance. bolically represented by the fight with the dragon (fig. 4). In theGothic period the knob below the curve is developed into an archi-tectonic lantern. The length of the Crozier is 5 to 6 ft. Thematerial is…
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