Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 318
ere bossed out,and often contained the elements of the Ionic and Corin-thian orders (Figs. 336, 337, 339). The wedge-shapedportion on the top of the capital is an ugly but distinctivefeature of the Byzantine style (Fig. 338). The splendour and magnificence of the decoration inByzantine churches is… … Fig- 336.—Capital from Santa Sophia, showing the bossing-out of the ornament.
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