Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 376
of St. Sebaldus(Fig. 393), one of the most important works of the fif-teenth century—than from its merits as an architecturalwork. The plan of this church is bad in having its naveand aisles of equal width, which is at utter variance with GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT. 355 all ideas of good… … Fig. 393.—Shrine of St. Sebaldus, at Niirembeig construction, but most of the forms and details of the orna-ment and figure work are purely Italian ; for at this time—the beginning of the sixteenth century—Germanic artistswere fascinated and strongly influenced by the art that 35^ HISTORIC…
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