History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1880)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933, Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 293
eated here with particular beautyand precision, and exhibits already in some of its details the richest motives ofRomanesque architecture. The columns are slender, with gold or colouredshafts, sometimes fluted either perpendicularly or spirally, and are often carriedby two animals or by crouching… … Fig. 67. herons, foxes gnawing at grapes, and also of stone-cutters at their work, vine-dressers, archers, and Centaurs. The richest architectural designs are thosewith arches, screens and dog-tooth mouldings, and curtains looped back,which, as in the Paris manuscript, are raised like a building…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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