Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 358
337 both in the Romanesque transitional and Gothic periods.Grotesque forms were used very much as sculptural decora-tion in the Lombardic Gothic architecture. In Scandinaviaand in Ireland this kind of ornament assumed the formsof snakes, serpents, and interlacings developed from them.(See Fig. 65,… … Fig. 377.—Towers and Round-arched Frieze, Abbey of Komberg. Style of Romanesque in England, the cushion-headedcapital. Window-openings were usually small, and the groupingof two or more lights under one arcaded head occurs inByzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic buildings. The lightcame usually from…
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