Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 378
d red, andwide-jointed, or of stone throughout. They have mostlysteep roofs, battlemented cornices, and stepped gablesThey are decorated with little spires or pinnacles, andhave horizontal or pointed openings to doorways andwindows, richly decorated friezes and stringcourses, open GOTHIC… … biO r<; o H o._bj!J ^W ^ -^^ and thirteenth centuries, but it never took any great rootin that country. In Rome there are no Gothic buildingsof this period : there is one of the fifteenth century, theChurch of Minerva, but is a bad example of the style. 35« HISTORIC ORNAMENT. On the other hand,…
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