Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 359
gof two or more lights under one arcaded head occurs inByzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic buildings. The lightcame usually from the clerestory, but sometimes smallercircular windows were introduced into the end gables,which subsequently were developed into windows ofgreater importance and intricacy… … Fig. 378.—Capital from Palace of Barbaiossa, Gelahausen. Saracenic influences. It was of itself an incongruousmixture, out of which, when the pointed arch of the Sara-cens was adopted, and theornamental features modifiedto conform with it, the newogival or Gothic style arose. In every part of…
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