Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 355
he Greek or Byzantine models. Romanesque churches of the tenth century are distin- 33+ HISTORIC ORNAMENT. guished by the basilica plan, the apsidal east end, round-headed arches, and single or double-light windows. Thewalls have generally a decoration, consisting of a seriesof flat… … Fig. 371.—Porch of the Heilsbronn Monastery, near Nuremberg. Romanesque. Some of the round-headed doorways areespecially rich in character, and have often five or sixrecessed columns (Fig. 371) that carry richly mouldedheads, and carved capitals of quaint animal and bird deco-ration (Fig. 372). The…
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