Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 402
l forms with extra-ordinary freedom. The column espe-cially was degraded in its use. It some-times supported only a few mouldings,and at other times was carried throughtwo or three stories, when its properfunction is to represent one story. Onekind of architectural style a little laterthan this… … Fifj. 412.—Portion of theFacade of St. Paul andSt. Louis at Paris. 382 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. In Spain the Renaissance, mixed with some Saracenicfeatures, produced some very good work; the typicalexample of Spanish Renaissance is the Escurial, the greatpalace of the Spanish kings. In Germany the…
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